Musk’s AI chatbot Grok generates deepfakes of PM Modi and other illegal images
The Hindu
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI’s chatbot Grok is letting users generate images of torture, shootouts, and celebrity deepfakes.
The AI chatbot Grok on Elon Musk-owned social media platform X is being used to generate graphic, explicit, fake, or illegal media soon after its image-generation capabilities were announced, claimed general users and journalists.
Just by entering a simple text prompt, The Hindu was able to use the new Grok 2 mini (beta) model to generate highly realistic deepfakes featuring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris wielding rifles.
Other AI text-to-image generators generally use content filters or guardrails to block users from creating fake pictures of real political figures or celebrities, for safety reasons. This is especially key in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election towards the end of the year.
Tech outlet The Verge also reported being able to create blatantly fake images of real life figures.
Other X users shared graphic images they claimed were generated with Grok. These included a prominent American musician in a state of undress, Disney characters going on a killing spree, and even a gun-wielding Musk standing over dead or blood-drenched victims in a school.
Musk hailed the new model’s image generation capabilities and urged users to pay the monthly fee in order to access the chatbot.
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