The Minnesota House has passed a landmark bill to ban AI nudification apps and websites that create explicit images of people, mostly women, without consent. On Thursday, the Minnesota House passed HF 1606, a bill to prohibit the use of nudification technology in the state. The legislation would make Minnesota the first state to take this step to prevent the creation of AI-generated non-consensual intimate images. So-called nudification or “nudify” apps use AI to alter photographs of real people, making them appear naked, placing them in pornographic videos, or turning them into sexually explicit chatbots. The Minnesota bill “prohibits the access, download, or use of nudification technology, except when the website, app, or software requires the substantial application of technological or artistic skill by a human creator directing and controlling the output,” according to the House. It targets programs that use AI to fabricate a nude photo or pornographic video from someone’s image.…