X's new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun

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Source: The Verge

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.

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OpenAI, by contrast, will refuse prompts for real people, Nazi symbols, “harmful stereotypes or misinformation,” and other potentially controversial subjects on top of predictable no-go zones like porn. Unlike Grok, it also adds an identifying watermark to images it does make. Users have coaxed major chatbots into producing images similar to the ones described above, but it often requires slang or other linguistic workarounds, and the loopholes are typically closed when people point them out.

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Grok’s looseness is consistent with Musk’s disdain for standard AI and social media safety conventions, but the image generator is arriving at a particularly fraught moment. The European Commission is already investigating X for potential violations of the Digital Safety Act, which governs how very large online platforms moderate content, and it requested information earlier this year from X and other companies about mitigating AI-related risk.

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Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220173/xai-grok-image-generator-misinformation-offensive-imges

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Much more at the article link, including in-text links to some of the tweets described.

Disgusting...and so typical of Musk.

This is worse than his using AI to rip off a video of two dancers, changing their images to his and Trump's: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219331979