xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law
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Minnesota’s broad anti-nudification law—and xAI’s pushback—shows how fast state-level rules can reshape what image models are allowed to do. If you ship generative media tools, start maintaining a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction feature matrix instead of assuming one global policy will hold.
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