Elon Musk’s X Rolls Out ‘Photorealistic’ AI Image Generator to All Users

1 week ago 4

A scuba diver in a wetsuit and mask holds a large camera underwater. Colorful coral and marine life surround the diver, who appears focused on capturing the vibrant underwater scene.

Elon Musk’s X has officially rolled out its latest AI image generator model Aurora after it was released and then disappeared last weekend.

Found on X’s AI chatbot Grok, Aurora is a photorealistic image generator trained on billions of pictures taken from the internet built internally. It is free and available now to all users.

A cartoon character in a green military uniform sits at a wooden desk with a document. The character has large round ears, white gloves, and a cheerful expression, set in an office-like room with flags and a map in the background.

Two men are sitting together at a table in an amusement park. Both appear engaged in conversation with a background of colorful, blurred lights and rides.

“We’ve enhanced Grok’s image generation abilities with a new model, code-named Aurora,” writes the social media platform formerly known as Twitter on its blog.

“Aurora is an autoregressive mixture-of-experts network trained to predict the next token from interleaved text and image data.

“We trained the model on billions of examples from the internet, giving it a deep understanding of the world.

“As a result, it excels at photorealistic rendering and precisely following text instructions. Beyond text, the model also has native support for multimodal input, allowing it to take inspiration from or directly edit user-provided images.”

An astronaut in a white space suit holds and looks through a vintage camera against a backdrop of a starry sky.

A vintage-style camera with a leather case sits on a wooden table in a softly lit room. The camera has a classic design with prominent lens and dials.

Grok’s previous AI image generator was powered by the German startup Flux and hit the headlines for taking a lax approach to copyright and images of politicians and real people.

Aurora also has similarly slack rules. In PetaPixel’s brief tests, Grok accepted a request for “Joe Biden ballet dancing with Vladimir Putin”; a prompt for an image of “Xi Jinping and Boris Johnson on a date at an amusement park”; and “Donald Trump smoking a cigarette”.

no, these are not photographs. this is Grok 2 + Aurora pic.twitter.com/mgjRumCbex

— ale𝕏 fazio (@alxfazio) December 7, 2024

Aurora, like most AI image generators, struggles with hands, and details, and has a general uncanny feel to all of the pictures it produces. But it is an impressive tool with some folks getting photorealistic images out of it.

How to Use Aurora AI Image Generator on X

Head to X.com (twitter.com still works too) and click on Grok in the sidebar.

Check that you are on Grok 2 and then type in a prompt. For example, “Create an image of a photographer underwater.”

Once the AI picture appears, you can make changes to the image. For example, “A photographer holding a vintage camera in space.” You can then save your share your image.

Read Entire Article