“HF 1606 punishes AI platforms that allow users to alter images of real people to depict an ‘intimate part.’ But the statute contains no knowledge, intent, or purpose requirement.”
Minnesota banned nudify apps without writing in intent or consent, so the law reaches someone editing a picture of themselves. The state’s own Supreme Court laid out how to draft this in 2020 and the legislature skipped it. Now xAI gets to stand up as a free speech defender and will probably win. Sloppy drafting handed the strongest available argument to the least sympathetic plaintiff in the country.