{"id":81,"date":"2026-05-01T17:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/minnesota-passes-ban-on-fake-ai-nudes-app-makers-risk-500k-fines\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:36:29","slug":"minnesota-passes-ban-on-fake-ai-nudes-app-makers-risk-500k-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/minnesota-passes-ban-on-fake-ai-nudes-app-makers-risk-500k-fines\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>This week, Minnesota became the first state to pass a law banning nudification apps that make it easy to &#8220;undress&#8221; or sexualize images of real people.<\/p>\n<p>Under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/bills\/94\/2025\/0\/HF\/1606\/versions\/2\/\">law<\/a>, developers of websites, apps, software, or other services designed to &#8220;nudify&#8221; images risk extensive damages, including punitive damages, if a victim decides to sue. Their offending products could also be blocked in the state. Additionally, Minnesota&#8217;s attorney general could impose fines up to $500,000 per fake AI nude flagged. Any fines collected would be used to fund services for victims of &#8220;sexual assault, general crime, domestic violence, and child abuse,&#8221; the law stipulates.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Minnesota Senate unanimously voted 65\u20130 to pass the law. That vote came after the bill just as quickly passed in the House last week, the 19th News <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2026\/04\/minnesota-nudification-ban-ai-deepfake\/\">reported<\/a>. Gov. Tim Walz is expected to sign the law when it reaches his desk, and if that happens, the state will start enforcing the ban this August.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/05\/minnesota-set-to-be-first-state-to-ban-nudification-apps\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/05\/minnesota-set-to-be-first-state-to-ban-nudification-apps\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Minnesota became the first state to pass a law banning nudification apps that make it easy to &#8220;undress&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,95,96,97,5,98,99,100,22,101,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-gadgets","category-csam","category-elon-musk","category-fake-nudes","category-gadgets","category-grok","category-minnesota","category-nudifying-apps","category-policy","category-x","category-xai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}