Grok’s new ‘Aurora’ graphics generator is back, and available to everyone on X

Update, December 9, 2024, 5:45PM ET: X today officially announced its Aurora image generator. “Grok’s new capabilities are now available on the X platform in select countries and will be rolled out to all users within a week,” the company said in a blog post. The original article, originally titled “X adds, then quickly removes, Grok’s new ‘Aurora’ generator,” follows the unedited below:

On Saturday, a new image generator called Aurora became available to some Grok users, many of them shared the results of the tool on the X to show their picture. But by Sunday afternoon, Aurora appears to be gone. Although it briefly appeared as an option on Grok model options as “Grok 2 + Aurora (beta),” it was replaced by “Grok 2 + Flux (beta).” It seems that Aurora may have gone public before she was ready. In a tweet in response to a user who shared photos of the Tesla Cybertruck made by Aurora, Elon Musk he said, “This is our way of creating internal images. It’s still in beta, but it’s working well.”

It comes after a few days X made Grok 2 free to usealthough it is limited to non-paying users. A generator of old Grok images has been released due to the lack of other restrictions on the types of content it can generate, such as obscene images of politicians and celebrities, and Aurora looks very similar to what we have seen before in this regard. Results TechCrunch he played with Aurora for a bit before dropping it and found that he couldn’t resist being asked to make a “picture of a bloody Donald Trump.”

It’s in addition to the models shared on X that create images of famous and legitimate people – including many images of Sam Altman and Elon Musk, as well as a photo of Luigi and Mickey Mouse in a boxing match. But, it would not give birth to genitals, according to TechCrunch, so it’s something.