On Saturday, a new image generator called Aurora became available for some Grok users, many of whom shared the tools results on X touting their photorealism. But as of Sunday afternoon, Aurora appears to be gone. While it briefly showed up as an option in Groks model selection menu as Grok 2 + Aurora (beta), its since been replaced with Grok 2 + Flux (beta). It looks like Aurora may have gone public before it was meant to. In a tweet replying to one user who shared images of Teslas Cybertruck created with Aurora, Elon Musk said, This is our internal image generation system. Still in beta, but it will improve fast.Behold my images using the new Grok @grok image generator Aurora: 1. Ray Romano and @AdamSandler on a sitcom set pic.twitter.com/2V491RdjMF Matt (@EnsoMatt) December 7, 2024 It comes a few days after X made Grok 2 free to use, albeit with limitations for non-paying users. Groks previous image generator has been called out for lacking certain restrictions around the types of content it can produce, like offensive images of politicians and celebrities, and Aurora seems pretty much in line with what weve seen already in that regard. TechCrunch played around with Aurora for a bit before it was taken down and found it didnt reject a prompt to create an image of a bloodied [Donald] Trump.Thats in addition to examples shared on X of it generating images of public figures and copyrighted characters including numerous images of Sam Altman and Elon Musk, as well as an image of Luigi and Mickey Mouse in a boxing match. But, it wouldnt produce nudes, according to TechCrunch, so that's something.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/x-adds-then-quickly-removes-groks-new-aurora-image-generator-181917002.html?src=rss