ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota soon will have a prohibition on using software to strip clothes off a person in a digital image and leaving her —or him — all naked. The nudification techniques have been in growing use to embarrass people who suddenly find themselves naked online — except the nude details are boilerplate and not theirs. Victims seldom are amused despite whatever perverse delights begets the perpetrator. O r just plain ol’ meanness. The new law easily passed the Legislature —132-1 in the House and 65-0 the Senate. Governor Tim Walz lost no time signing off on the law. Said Walz: “This bill makes clear that using technology to create fake, non-consensual intimate images is unacceptable and puts Minnesota at the forefront of addressing the harms of AI.”
Promotional instructions with readily available and easily used image-manipulation software. Next step, not shown here: Plugging in intimate details from other images