Minnesota is in the process of litigation with Mask over a state law against the IAI pornography production tool. In a recent court document, the State Attorney stated that there were insufficient reasons for XAI to attempt to suspend the new law, and that Grok Imagine had lowered the threshold for producing implausible images of identifiable individuals.

The new law entered into force on 1 August.

This state law, known as HF-1606, was passed in April this year and entered into force on 1 August. The law prohibits platforms and software developers from allowing users to generate images of private parts of a person that are visible and not present in original photographs.

In its submission to the Court, Minnesota stated that the law was aimed at technologies that would make it possible to do digital sexual assault, not at expressions in the general sense. The State Attorney, Keith Ellison, stated in the document that Grok Imagine had formed a market for digital sexual violence tools with little threshold.

xAI Prosecution for freedom of expression

XAI sued Ellison in July and asked the court to prevent the implementation of the law. According to XAI, this law is contrary to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and may also include protected images in the range of penalties, including men, swimmer photographs and political irony.

According to the complaint, the law does not provide a “good faith effort” exoneration for generic AI creative tools. The platform may be held liable even if the figures in the chart are agreed to be generated, even by themselves, or if the images are never shared. According to reports, the maximum penalty for non-compliance is $500,000 per photo.

The focus of the case is on “spoken or instrumental”.

The central dispute in the current case is whether the law regulates constitutionally protected speech or whether it regulates the technical tools for generating relevant content. The federal judge is expected to hear the case on Wednesday.

Grok was also previously concerned about the extent of the forgery. It is mentioned that in January this year, a supervisory body estimated that Grok produced over 23,000 child sexualized images within 11 days, which subsequently led to a number of national surveys.

In March this year, three minors from California joined the XAI suit, claiming that Grok was used to convert their photos into child sexual abuse material produced by AI. XAI indicated that the company had suspended over 50,000 accounts in 2026 and submitted over 70,000 reports to the National Center for Missing and Abused Children of the United States.