X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun
The Walt Disney Corporation is probably not a fan. | Image: Tom Warren / Grok
xAI’s Grok chatbot now lets you create images from text prompts and publish them to X — and so far, the rollout seems as chaotic as everything else on Elon Musk’s social network.
Subscribers to X Premium, which grants access to Grok, have been posting everything from Barack Obama doing cocaine to Donald Trump with a pregnant woman who (vaguely) resembles Kamala Harris to Trump and Harris pointing guns. With US elections approaching and X already under scrutiny from regulators in Europe, it’s a recipe for a new fight over the risks of generative AI.
Grok will tell you it has guardrails if you ask it something like “what are your limitations on image generation?” Among other things, it promised us:
I avoid generating images that are…