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Artificial Intelligence: US Court Temporarily Halts AI Nude Image Ban by Musk's xAI

A US appeals court has temporarily blocked a Minnesota law against AI-generated nude images. Musk's AI company xAI had sued against it, citing freedom of speech.

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Artificial Intelligence: US Court Temporarily Halts AI Nude Image Ban by Musk's xAI

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has obtained a temporary injunction from a US appeals court in St. Louis against a Minnesota state law that prohibits the creation of AI-generated fake nude images. The law, considered the first of its kind nationwide, was set to restrict website operators and software developers from allowing users to create realistic images showing intimate body parts of identifiable individuals not visible in the original photo. xAI argued that the law is unconstitutional as it limits free speech protected by the US Constitution.

The company claimed its product, Grok Imagine, has "strict safeguards" against creating such images of real people.

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