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On Tuesday, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok started enabling users to submit AI-generated photographs on X via text prompts. Fake photos of political figures, including former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as of Musk himself, started to appear on social media almost immediately after the tool was released
With Elon Musk’s AI photo tool, phony yet realistic pictures of Trump, Harris, and Biden are being produced.
Some of the images showed the public figures in obviously false but still unsettling situations, such as taking part in the 9/11 attacks.
Grok, developed by Musk’s artificial intelligence business xAI, seems to have less restrictions than other popular AI photo apps.
In tests of the program, CNN, for instance, had no trouble getting Grok to produce phony, lifelike photos of politicians and candidates that, when presented out of context, might mislead voters. Additionally, the technology produced believable yet benign pictures of celebrities, like Musk enjoying a steak in a park.
Some X users shared pictures they said they made using Grok, including sexualized pictures of bikini-clad women, cartoon characters killing violently, and famous people doing drugs. User Grok submitted a photo of Trump firing a firearm out the top of a truck in a post that received close to 400,000 views. CNN’s tests verified that the technology can produce these kinds of photos.
