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Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to \u201cnudify\u201d images can move forward, according to NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank\u2019s ruling<\/a> focused as much on the timing of xAI\u2019s lawsuit as on the substance of the law itself. Frank wrote that xAI filed its request for a temporary restraining order \u201con July 29, 2026, nearly three months after the law was signed, and only three days before the law is set to take effect\u201d on August 1.<\/p>\n \u201cSuch a delay in bringing the action and the motion suggests that harm is not immediate,\u201d Frank said.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the end of xAI\u2019s 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 \u2014 the first of its kind in the United States \u2014 is \u201coverinclusive\u201d and that \u201cthere are far less restrictive alternatives that function to achieve the same ends.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier this year, users of Elon Musk\u2019s social media platform X (both X and xAI, are now part of SpaceX) used xAI\u2019s Grok chatbot to flood the platform with non-consensual sexualized images<\/a>, leading to investigations<\/a> and bans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n