Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps ^⁠32%

8/1/2026, 1:26:04 PM

Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Legal, Policy

Keywords: Xai, Minnesota, Nudify Apps, Elon Musk, Grok Chatbot, Lawsuit, Ban

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Hasty Generalization, and Anecdotal, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 28.6% saturation with 60 hits. Analysis detected 340 faulty-reasoning hits from 210 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 35.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠32% (18,082 of 26,281 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 68.80% of the article peer group.

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Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward, according to NBC News.

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District Judge Donovan Frank’s ruling focused as much on the timing of xAI’s lawsuit as on 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 only three days before the law is set to take effect” on August 1.

“Such a delay in bringing the action and the motion suggests that harm is not immediate,” Frank said.

This isn’t the end of xAI’s lawsuit against the ban; it only means that the law can take effect while the lawsuit proceeds.

In the suit, xAI argued that the ban — the first of its kind in the United States — is “overinclusive” and that “there are far less restrictive alternatives that function to achieve the same ends.”

Earlier this year, users of Elon Musk’s social media platform X (both X and xAI, are now part of SpaceX) used xAI’s Grok chatbot to flood the platform with non-consensual sexualized images, leading to investigations and bans.

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Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps ^⁠32%