Elon Musk launches Aurora, a realistic, no-holds-bar image generation engine

After making Grok free for all X users, Elon Musk et al. released a new treat: an image generation engine!

Introducing Aurora

The new feature, Aurora, allows X users to generate pretty much any image they can think of. This is, in fact, a key differentiator as some competitors have dramatically limited (sometimes censored) their image generation engines.

Some of our more gruesome tests have, in fact, generated fairly daunting images; so much so that we'll avoid posting them here.

In other tests, Aurora had no issues generating images based on copyrighted material, such as this one (prompt: generate an image of mickey mouse and buzz lightyears partying together in a club)

The origin of Aurora...

...is unclear. Previous iterations of image generation via Grok used Flux, the open-source image generation model.

In this case, no information about the models themselves have been disclosed. Have Elon's team developed their own or gone off-the-shelf again?

After Aurora was briefly accessible on Dec 07, it was seemingly taken down.

xAI, the company behind Grok and Aurora, has reportedly raised $6 billion last month. I've asked it to generate an image of Elon reading The Backlog... with all that cash, I expected better.