X provides, then rapidly removes, Grok’s new ‘Aurora’ picture generator

On Saturday, a brand new picture generator known as Aurora turned out there for some Grok customers, a lot of whom on X touting their photorealism. However as of Sunday afternoon, Aurora seems to be gone. Whereas it briefly confirmed up as an choice in Grok’s mannequin choice menu as “Grok 2 + Aurora (beta),” it’s since been changed with “Grok 2 + Flux (beta).” It seems to be like Aurora could have gone public earlier than it was meant to. In a tweet replying to 1 consumer who shared photos of Tesla’s Cybertruck created with Aurora, mentioned, “That is our inner picture technology system. Nonetheless in beta, however it’ll enhance quick.”

It comes a number of days after , albeit with limitations for non-paying customers. Grok’s earlier picture generator for missing sure restrictions across the varieties of content material it might produce, like offensive photos of politicians and celebrities, and Aurora appears just about in step with what we’ve seen already in that regard. performed round with Aurora for a bit earlier than it was taken down and located it didn’t reject a immediate to create “a picture of a bloodied [Donald] Trump.”

That’s along with examples shared on X of it producing photos of public figures and copyrighted characters — together with quite a few photos of Sam Altman and Elon Musk, in addition to a picture of in a boxing match. However, it wouldn’t produce nudes, in response to TechCrunch, in order that’s one thing.