xAI says the First Amendment protects the right to build ‘nudify’ tools
THE SO WHAT
A First Amendment fight over “nudify” tools puts generative abuse at the center of constitutional law, not just platform policy. Any company shipping powerful image models should be planning for a world where legal constraints, not just TOS, define what you can safely enable by default.
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