Elon Musk's company sues MN over law to bar manipulated images to fake nudity
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How is Minnesota planning to ban open weight models and the services that host them?
They’re not: no ban is described. There is only a civil penalty with legal and financial ramifications.
However, a judge may impose “injuctive relief” as described in section 1.4.3, which leads to one set of possible ‘ban’ outcomes. This recently happened with Texas and Verisign; one assumes Verisign will be just as spineless re: Minnesota, and so the same opportunity for an “ban”, so to speak, exists here. This of course remains bound by the federal laws noted in the final section, re: ISPs and UGC; in such cases, I hope that Minnesota judges would only issue and attempt to enforce an injection if a covered hosting provider refuses to perform their moderation and takedown duties.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/SF/1119/versions/...
(I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice.)