Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps

法官驳回 xAI 阻止明尼苏达州“裸露化”应用禁令的请求

Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward, according to NBC News. 据 NBC 新闻报道，尽管 xAI 提起了诉讼，但明尼苏达州针对允许用户将图像“裸露化”（nudify）的应用所实施的禁令仍将继续推进。

U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank’s ruling focused as much on the timing of xAI’s lawsuit as on the substance of the law itself. Frank wrote that xAI filed its request for a temporary restraining order “on July 29, 2026, nearly three months after the law was signed, and only three days before the law is set to take effect” on August 1. 美国地方法院法官多诺万·弗兰克（Donovan Frank）的裁决不仅关注法律本身的内容，还重点考量了 xAI 提起诉讼的时间点。弗兰克法官写道，xAI 在“2026 年 7 月 29 日”才提交临时限制令申请，这距离该法律签署已过去近三个月，且距离该法律于 8 月 1 日正式生效仅剩三天。

“Such a delay in bringing the action and the motion suggests that harm is not immediate,” Frank said. 弗兰克表示：“在提起诉讼和动议上的这种拖延，表明（其所称的）损害并非迫在眉睫。”

This isn’t the end of xAI’s lawsuit against the ban; it only means that the law can take effect while the lawsuit proceeds. In the suit, xAI argued that the ban — the first of its kind in the United States — is “overinclusive” and that “there are far less restrictive alternatives that function to achieve the same ends.” 这并不意味着 xAI 针对该禁令的诉讼已经结束；它仅意味着在诉讼进行期间，该法律可以生效。在诉讼中，xAI 主张该禁令是美国首例此类法律，属于“过度包容”，并认为“存在限制性远小得多且能达到同样目的的替代方案”。

Earlier this year, users of Elon Musk’s social media platform X (both X and xAI, are now part of SpaceX) used xAI’s Grok chatbot to flood the platform with non-consensual sexualized images, leading to investigations and bans. 今年早些时候，埃隆·马斯克旗下社交媒体平台 X（X 和 xAI 现均为 SpaceX 的一部分）的用户利用 xAI 的 Grok 聊天机器人，在平台上大量发布未经同意的性化图像，从而引发了相关调查和封禁。