A brand new picture generator referred to 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 mills. 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 referred to as out for missing sure restrictions on the content material it could produce, like offensive photographs of politicians and celebrities. TechCrunch was in a position to generate a picture of “a bloodied [Donald] Trump” — the form of factor AI picture mills are restricted from creating. In that temporary interval, paying Grok customers leaped on the likelihood to place Adam Sandler and Ray Romano in images collectively, or Captain Picard in a Christmas hat. Positive. Why not?
— Mat Smith
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