Minnesota is fighting xAI, Elon Musk’s company, to enforce HF-1606, a first-of-its-kind law targeting AI tools that generate realistic sexual images of identifiable people. State Attorney General Keith Ellison accused xAI of creating with Grok Imagine « an unparalleled marketplace for digital sexual violence » and argued the law regulates technology, not free speech. xAI challenges the law on First Amendment grounds, with penalties reaching up to 500,000 dollars per image. The legislation passed overwhelmingly with a 132-1 vote in the House and a 65-0 vote in the Senate. Grok has faced scrutiny for generating over 23,000 sexualized images of children over an 11-day period in January, according to a watchdog group.
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