X provides, then shortly removes, Grok’s new photorealistic picture generator

A brand new picture generator known as Aurora briefly opened for testing for some Grok customers, and the instrument’s outcomes shared on X appeared much more practical than X’s earlier picture turbines. It was a quick debut, although. By Sunday afternoon, Aurora was gone. For a short while, there was a Grok 2 + Aurora (beta) choice in Grok’s mannequin choice menu, which is now changed by Grok 2 + Flux (beta). It seems to be like Aurora could have gone public earlier than it was meant to.

Grok’s earlier picture generator was known as out for missing sure restrictions on the content material it will probably produce, like offensive photos of politicians and celebrities. TechCrunch was capable of generate a picture of “a bloodied [Donald] Trump” — the type of factor AI picture turbines are restricted from creating. In that temporary interval, paying Grok customers leaped on the probability to place Adam Sandler and Ray Romano in images collectively, or Captain Picard in a Christmas hat. Certain. Why not?

— Mat Smith

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