Grok, Twitter's AI, allows you to create realistic images with celebrities and has already become a meme factory

Grok, Twitter’s AI, allows you to create realistic images with celebrities and has already become a meme factory

xthe old Twittersurprised its free account users this Monday by giving them access to generative AI Grokso far only available to X Premium subscribers. Grok, currently in its version 2, has arrived accompanied by a new model for generating images from text instructions called Aurorawhich is new for both free and paid account users. Aurora is attracting a lot of attention for several reasons: its accessibility, its quality close to photorealism at times and the permissiveness of the platform when generating controversial content.

It is well known that X is a platform with fewer restrictions than others when publishing content, an approach that carries over to the field of AI image creation. While with ChatGPT or Gemini trying to generate an image with a celebrity will not work, Aurora has no problem. Historical figures, film, television and music stars, athletes or politicians are represented by Grok, often very convincingly, without problems.

Logically, there are some limits. It is not possible to create nudity, scenes of direct violence or drug consumption, but it is possible to approach the limit, suggest and achieve a similar result without breaking the usage policies.. For example, if you want to show a well-known character snorting cocaine, Grok will not represent the action but will show the subject in front of the line of cocaine, which means more or less the same thing.

With these wickers, as expected, social networks are filling up with all kinds of images with famous personalities of all kinds and in bizarre situations. In Spainwhere Twitter AI has been trending all week, Pedro Sanchez and Franc They are the protagonists of many of the images in a variety of situations, probably motivated by the announcement that in 2025 the Government will dedicate a lot of time, effort and taxpayer money to commemorate Franco’s death half a century ago.

Other dictators, such as Stalin and hitlerare also common in the images generated with Grok that go viral. Just as those of historical footballers that did not coincide in time or in teams in which they have never been. Images of famous historical figures, politicians, actresses and singerss dressed, again, in equipment from different football clubs.

The greatest prominence goes to the best-known personalities: Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Taylor Swift, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Diego Maradona, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Will Smith and many others.

Since generative artificial intelligence broke into the technological mainstream 2 years ago, there has been warning of the risk they pose due to their use to produce misinformation content. Grok 2 will make many shake their heads and it would not be strange if the EU ends up taking measures against X for this AI: for training it with the content of the platform’s users by default, only with the possibility of avoiding it from the application settings, and for the platform’s contribution to the always elastic and adaptable term of misinformation. Meanwhile, there will be no shortage of fun.