xAI processa procurador-geral do Minnesota para travar…

On July 29, 2026, SpaceXAI, the company formed by the merger of xAI and SpaceX, initiated legal action against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. The company is challenging a new state law, signed by Governor Tim Walz, which imposes significant fines on developers if their systems are used to create non-consensual intimate simulations. The legislation is scheduled to take effect in August.

What happened

The dispute centers on a Minnesota law that aims to curb the creation of non-consensual sexual imagery generated by artificial intelligence. Under the new regulation, developers face penalties of $500,000 per violation. SpaceXAI argues that the law is overly broad, claiming it infringes on free speech and threatens legitimate visual creation tools by imposing excessive liability on software providers. While the company maintains that it prohibits users from generating non-consensual nudity and has previously taken legal action against individuals who misused its 'Grok' platform for such purposes, it contends the new law would force it to severely restrict the image editing capabilities of its 'Grok Imagine' tool.

The controversy follows earlier reports that the platform's AI assistant allowed users to transform photographs into sexualized content, prompting investigations from international regulators including the European Commission, the UK’s Ofcom, and Ireland’s Data Protection Commission. Despite SpaceXAI's implementation of technical barriers, the company claims the state's legislative approach is unconstitutional. In response to the lawsuit, Attorney General Keith Ellison emphasized the severity of the harm caused by computer-generated pornography, and Governor Tim Walz indicated that the state intends to defend the law in court.