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Minnesota House Passes Bill Banning "Nudification Technology"
The measure allows victims to seek damages and sets civil penalties of up to $500,000 for companies that violate the ban.
- On Thursday, the Minnesota House passed HF1606 with a 132-1 vote, a bill authored by Rep. Jessica Hanson, DFL-Burnsville, prohibiting AI-driven nudification technology that creates non-consensual sexualized images.
- Hanson stated that governing bodies have failed to adequately regulate deepfakes, which enable users to generate explicit content of real people without permission, prompting the legislation.
- Under the bill, companies violating Minnesota's law face civil penalties of up to $500,000, and the legislation allows victims to seek damages through civil action against those unlawfully promoting the technology.
- HF1606 now awaits a vote in the Minnesota Senate before heading to Governor Walz, which would make Minnesota the first state to implement such a specific prohibition on nudification technology.
- The Trump administration has announced plans to challenge state-level AI laws while developing a comprehensive national legislative framework, potentially threatening Minnesota's regulatory approach.
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