
xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets « nudification » apps, claiming that the statute’s punitive provisions leave the company with « no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine’s image-editing features in various ways. » The law, the company argues, violates the First Amendment.
Back in January, Grok flooded the internet with millions of sexually explicit deepfakes, including images of minors. In another era, a content moderation disaster of this magnitude would have had the CEO flipping the kill switch on the product within hours. But in Elon Musk’s brave new world, the …