X provides, then shortly removes, Grok’s new pho...

A brand new picture generator known as Aurora briefly opened for testing for some Grok customers, and the software’s outcomes shared on X appeared much more sensible than X’s earlier picture mills. It was a quick debut, although. By Sunday afternoon, Aurora was gone. For a short while, there was a Grok 2 + Aurora (beta) possibility in Grok’s mannequin choice menu, which is now changed by Grok 2 + Flux (beta). It seems to be like Aurora might 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 might produce, like offensive photos of politicians and celebrities. TechCrunch was capable of generate a picture of “a bloodied [Donald] Trump” — the sort of factor AI picture mills are restricted from creating. In that transient interval, paying Grok customers leaped on the probability to place Adam Sandler and Ray Romano in pictures collectively, or Captain Picard in a Christmas hat. Positive. Why not?

— Mat Smith

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