A Minnesota law that took effect August 1 makes it illegal to run a website, app, or software program that lets users "nudify" images, and Elon Musk's xAI is challenging the law on First Amendment grounds. The law, H.F. 1606, states that "a person who owns or controls a website, application, software, program, or other service must not" allow users "to nudify an image or video," nor "nudify an image or video on behalf of a user," and also bans advertising or promoting any nudification service. To nudify is defined as "the process by which: (1) an image or video is altered or generated to depict an intimate part not depicted in an original unaltered image or video of an identifiable individual" when the image is "realistic" enough that "a reasonable person" might not know it was a fake. Intimate parts include "the primary genital area, groin, inner thigh, buttocks, or breast of a human being." Violating the law can lead to a $500,000 fine per "access, download, or use," in addition to serving as grounds for a lawsuit by any person depicted in a nudified photo or video. The law is broad enough to ban satirical, journalistic, or artistic uses, including depicting someone's inner thigh or a shirtless man, and even services that let people nudify themselves or generate an image of themself in