Grok Creator SpaceXAI Sues Minnesota AG to Stop Ban on Nudification
“xAI accordingly does not contest Minnesota’s interest in prohibiting the dissemination of artificially generated nude images of real people without their consent. But […]” So reads an excerpt from the first paragraph of a new lawsuit against Minnesota’s attoney general from xAI, LLC, the SpaceX AI division recently rebranded as SpaceXAI. (It appears the company’s LLC and primary website url haven’t been updated to match the SpaceXAI rebrand. They should kick it into high gear because I’m very sick of writing all this stuff out).
- ▪“xAI accordingly does not contest Minnesota’s interest in prohibiting the dissemination of artificially generated nude images of real people without their consent.
- ▪But […]” So reads an excerpt from the first paragraph of a new lawsuit against Minnesota’s attoney general from xAI, LLC, the SpaceX AI division recently rebranded as SpaceXAI. (It appears the company’s LLC and primary website url haven’t b
- ▪They should kick it into high gear because I’m very sick of writing all this stuff out).
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“xAI accordingly does not contest Minnesota’s interest in prohibiting the dissemination of artificially generated nude images of real people without their consent. But […]” So reads an excerpt from the first paragraph of a new lawsuit against Minnesota’s attoney general from xAI, LLC, the SpaceX AI division recently rebranded as SpaceXAI. (It appears the company’s LLC and primary website url haven’t been updated to match the SpaceXAI rebrand. They should kick it into high gear because I’m very sick of writing all this stuff out). As you probably recall, over this past holiday break, a capability of xAI’s Grok chatbot went viral, and users created countless nonconsensual sexual images of real people, including many of underage people.
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