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Elon Musk says 'Grok is the most fun AI in the world': "It's the most based and uncensored model of its class yet"
By Kevin Okemwa,
3 days ago
What you need to know
Elon Musk's X launched Grok 2 with reasoning and image generation capabilities.
The image generation capability has been received with a cocktail of emotions, with the vast majority touting its uncensored nature.
Multiple deepfake images generated using Grok have surfaced online featuring prominent politicians and public figures in compromising situations.
The emergence of generative AI has stirred controversy among interested parties, with the main issue centered on privacy and security. Chatbots like Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT are great at generating images based on text prompts.
This caused a ripple effect across rival models, limiting their capabilities to simple and generic images—not Grok-2 , though. Shortly after the model launched, users quickly moved to X and referred to it as "the most based and uncensored model of its class yet." Users also used the opportunity to praise Elon Musk for "ensuring freedom of speech for humans and machines alike with @x + @xai."
Users are seemingly enjoying the freedom Grok 2's image generation capabilities offer. There's no cap to what you can prompt the AI model to generate. X partnered with Black Forest Labs, allowing Grok 2 to leverage Flux's image-generating capabilities.
Grok features a fun mode that allows users to tap their creative juices at an optimum level. To this end, it's unclear what the general opinion is about the tool's new image-generation capabilities. The tool has seemingly been received with a cocktail of emotions, with the vast majority touting its unlimited capabilities. Some users have raised concerns about the tool spreading misinformation, ultimately causing harm.
Multiple deepfake images of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are already making rounds across social media. And while it's easy to identify them as AI-generated images, they pose a significant threat to the forthcoming elections, placing the involved parties in compromising situations like the 9/11 attacks.
More problems abound for X
X (formerly Twitter) (Image credit: Daniel Rubino)
Grok is increasingly becoming more like Microsoft and OpenAI's flagship AI-powered chatbots, though it's seemingly the new kid on the block. Billionaire and X owner Musk has laid out ambitious plans for the chatbot and says It will be " the most powerful AI by every metric by December ." Musk highlighted that the chatbot is being trained by the world's most powerful AI cluster.
X has also quietly rolled out a new setting that grants the chatbot access to a user's data by default for training. When regulators raised the issue to X, the company reportedly shoulder-shrugged the complaints. X has made it difficult to disable the feature , as it's limited to the web app.
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