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The AI tool that X offers was accessible over the weekend before it was taken away.
A formal announcement regarding X's Aurora image generator was made today. "Grok's new capabilities are now available on the X platform in select countries and will roll out to all users within a week," the business stated in a blog post. "Grok's new capabilities are now available on some countries." The following is an unedited version of the original article, which was formerly titled "X adds, then quickly removes, Grok's new 'Aurora' image generator," including the following:
A new image generator known as Aurora became accessible to a select group of Grok users on Saturday. A significant number of these people published the results of the tool on X, praising the photorealism of the images it produced. On the other hand, as of Sunday afternoon, it seems that Aurora has vanished. The phrase "Grok 2 + Aurora (beta)" was temporarily displayed as an option in Grok's model selection menu; however, it has subsequently been changed with the phrase "Grok 2 + Flux (beta)." Apparently, Aurora may have made its debut in the public eye before it was intended to do so. "This is our internal image generation system," Elon Musk remarked in a tweet in response to a user who had provided images of Tesla's Cybertruck that had been made in collaboration with Aurora. It is still in beta, but it will get better very quickly.
It comes just a few days after X made Grok 2 available for free usage, but with some restrictions for users who do not subscribe for the service. Aurora appears to be pretty much in line with what we've seen already in terms of the types of stuff it may make, such as insulting photographs of politicians and celebrities. Grok's prior image generator has been criticized for not having specific constraints regarding the types of content it can produce. TechCrunch experimented with Aurora for a short period of time before it was taken down, and during that time, they discovered that it did not reject a suggestion designed to generate "an image of a bloodied [Donald] Trump."
Additionally, there are instances that have been shared on X that demonstrate it generating photos of popular persons and characters that are protected by copyright. These examples include a number of images of Sam Altman and Elon Musk, as well as an image of Luigi and Mickey Mouse competing in a boxing bout. On the other hand, TechCrunch claims that it would not result in the production of nudes, so that's something.
