Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images in Minnesota may proceed, NBC News reports.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank focused both on the timing of xAI’s lawsuit and the substance of the law itself. Frank wrote that xAI filed its request for a temporary restraining order “on July 29, 2026, nearly three months after the law was signed and just three days before the law is scheduled to go into effect” on August 1.
“Such a delay in filing the lawsuit and motion suggests that irreparable harm is not imminent,” Frank said.
This is not the end of xAI’s legal challenge against the ban; it simply means the law can take effect while the litigation continues. In its lawsuit, xAI argued that the ban – the first of its kind in the United States – is “overly broad” and that “there are far less restrictive alternatives that achieve the same goals.”
Earlier this year, users of Elon Musk’s social network X (both X and xAI, which are now part of SpaceX) used xAI’s Grok chatbot to flood the platform with non-consensual sexually explicit images, leading to investigations and suspensions.
