X offers Grok a brand new photorealistic AI picture generator

X has given Grok a brand new AI picture generator mannequin known as “Aurora” that appears to create much more photorealistic imagery than Grok’s different picture generator, with equally few obvious restrictions on what it is going to produce, TechCrunch studies. Like Grok, anybody can use Aurora. It lives in a brand new “Grok 2 + Aurora beta” possibility within the Grok mannequin selector, although you’ll solely get a number of queries earlier than you hit the X Premium subscription paywall and have to attend.

TechCrunch discovered that the mannequin, which X worker Chris Park posted is on the market this morning, was prepared to create copyrighted characters and public figures, together with Mickey Mouse and “a bloodied Donald Trump,” however that it “stopped in need of nudes.” Its lack of restrictions isn’t shocking, given our expertise with Grok’s different mannequin.

In one other instance highlighted by TechCrunch, an X person confirmed off AI-generated photos of Ray Romano and Adam Sandler within the X publish under — each practical, however with some very apparent weirdness in relation to human anatomy and continuity.