Minnesota tells court Grok does not deserve First Amendment protection

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a brief on Friday opposing xAI’s attempt to block HF 1606, the state’s first-in-the-nation law restricting AI tools that generate sexual images of identifiable people, per Decrypt.

Ellison argued the company is unlikely to succeed on its constitutional claim and has failed to show that enforcement would cause irreparable harm.

With Grok Imagine, X.AI has created an unparalleled marketplace for digital sexual violence, and the state would be defenseless from the start unless it could direct its laws at the technology itself.

– Attorney General Keith Ellison

The argument from Minnesota is that Grok Imagine is a tool and not protected speech, which would take it out of the considerations presented by xAI for the judge to examine. There will be a hearing on the matter by a federal judge on Wednesday.

Minnesota’s law targets AI providers even without knowledge or intent

HF 1606 bars a company from letting users generate realistic images showing intimate parts that were absent from the original photograph of an identifiable person, and from producing such an image on a user’s behalf. Violations carry penalties of up to $500,000 per image. People depicted can sue separately.

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