--- title: xAI sues Minnesota over the first US ‘nudify’ ban description: xAI has filed a federal lawsuit against Minnesota's attorney general to block HF 1606, the first US law banning AI 'nudification' technology, which takes... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/xai-sues-minnesota-over-the-first-us-nudify-ban-m4efgs3ig twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: xAI sues Minnesota over the first US ‘nudify’ ban | daily.dev og:description: xAI has filed a federal lawsuit against Minnesota's attorney general to block HF 1606, the first US law banning AI 'nudification' technology, which takes... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/xai-sues-minnesota-over-the-first-us-nudify-ban-m4efgs3ig og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/m4EfGS3ig.png og:image:alt: xAI sues Minnesota over the first US ‘nudify’ ban og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # xAI sues Minnesota over the first US ‘nudify’ ban **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary xAI has filed a federal lawsuit against Minnesota's attorney general to block HF 1606, the first US law banning AI 'nudification' technology, which takes effect this Saturday. The company argues the law violates the First Amendment as an overbroad content-based restriction on free speech and visual expression tools. xAI warns the penalties — up to $500,000 per violation — could reach $50 billion for a service with 100,000 violations, and says it would need to restrict Grok Imagine's editing features. The lawsuit comes at an awkward moment: xAI simultaneously faces a proposed class action alleging Grok was used to generate child sexual abuse material, plus regulatory investigations in California, the UK, the EU, and Ireland. The case is also a proxy battle over whether individual US states can regulate AI, as the Trump administration pushes for a single national framework. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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