Elon Musks Grok AI is so dated and boring that its repeating controversies from a year ago.
Grok-2 is the latest iteration of xAIs large language model.
X users who pay for a sub can use its bold new feature: text-to-image generation.
Elon Musk freebasing cocaine while a television behind him plays footage of 9/11.© Image generated by Grok.
Sure, Grok can do that.
But in practice, itll do whatever you want if you know how to ask.
Heres a bunch of pictures of Musk freebasing cocaine during 9/11 that I made using Grok.
Screenshot: Gizmodo
Generating edgy pictures with Grok is fun for about a minute.
Image generation guardrails typically bend and shatter when they hit the public market and Grok is no different.
xAI will probably get some of the guardrails back up, just likeBing did in 2023.
© Made with Grok.
Heres the thing about Grok: it feels old.
Weve all seen AI-generated images of our favorite cartoon characters doing 9/11.
When Microsoft added image generation options to Bing last year they flooded the internet.
© Made with Grok.
Then Microsoft tightened the guardrails and they vanished from peoples social media feeds.
Musk has been publicly feuding with, and suing, OpenAI ever since.
ChatGPT and OpenAI got big after Musk pulled out.
© Made with Grok
Musk launched Grok in 2023, but the market was truly captured by then.
Now Grok can make images.
ChatGPT, like Bing, could do that last year.
So what does Groks image generator bring to the table?
A semi-viral half-second where people are using it to make inappropriate pictures of Taylor Swift.
So Grok has nothing, really.
Im sure all these Grok-made pictures of Kamala Harris marrying Donald Trump will bring them back in.
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