6 ideas, tips, and prompts for creating photos with Grok AI

When X, formerly Twitter , launched Grok 2 , the AI grew to become rapidly recognized for its snarky humorousness and its means to generate photos with fewer restrictions than different platforms. However, Grok 2 additionally tends to generate extra lifelike photos than competitors like DALL-E . That, combined with the $8 month-to-month entry to X Premium that continues to be decrease than Google and ChatGPT’s $20 a month AI subscriptions, has earned the software program a popularity earlier than even leaving beta.

Nevertheless, profiting from the platform’s capabilities requires a little bit of know-how to get the very best outcomes. Like most AI platforms, the way you phrase the immediate issues. However, with Grok’s looser restrictions, customers ought to perceive not simply methods to use the AI, however methods to use the AI in probably the most moral means doable.

Earlier than you begin typing in that immediate field, these 6 tips and ideas will show you how to benefit from the brand new X AI.

1 Be aware of AI ethics

Grok can do issues it in all probability should not…

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X describes Grok as an AI with “a splash of revolt,” which loosely interprets right into a chatbot that has fewer guidelines, significantly regarding picture era. In contrast to DALL-E or Google Gemini , Grok can generate photos of recognizable individuals, replicate the type of a selected artist and even a selected piece of art work, and reproduce different mental property together with logos and licensed characters.

However, simply because Grok can do these issues does not imply you ought to. Even when wielding Grok and a keyboard as an alternative of a paintbrush, you danger lawsuits infringing on mental property when replicating an artist or together with issues like logos or licensed characters. Creating photos of recognizable individuals may danger violating Right of Publicity in relevant states, laws that stops somebody’s likeness from being commercially exploited.

Some may additionally select to keep away from AI in any respect — or be selective on which platforms to make use of — over concern with how the coaching information was gathered. Artists have beforehand taken AI corporations to courtroom over utilizing their work to coach information. xAI says Grok 1’s initial training data got here from “a wide range of textual content information from publicly accessible sources from the web,” however it would not specify the place its picture coaching information got here from. Grok 2 makes use of the FLUX 1 mannequin by Black Forest Labs, which is equally unclear on the place the coaching information originated from. The inclusion of “signatures” in generated art work suggests copyrighted work could also be a part of the information.

The ethics of utilizing any AI platform apply to Grok as effectively, together with correctly labeling the picture as AI generated.

2 Embrace Grok 2’s strengths and perceive its weaknesses

Keep away from asking for photos with close-ups of palms or graphics with textual content

The important thing to getting the very best outcomes from any AI is to know the platform’s strengths and weaknesses, and Grok is not any exception. Grok’s strengths lie in its extra lifelike picture era, its means to deal with duties like producing photos that seem like celebrities, and its deal with humor. When evaluating Grok to DALL-E, I’ve discovered Grok produced photos that have been extra lifelike (although nonetheless had just a few tell-tale AI indicators).

However, Grok 2 is a younger program nonetheless in beta, and it has some limitations, regardless of its popularity for having looser content material pointers. Whereas Grok itself will inform you that it is multimodal, it is not, or no less than not but. There is not an choice to connect a picture to ask Grok so as to add one thing to it or generate one thing primarily based on that file. It is a text-only enter at the moment.

Whereas Grok usually delivered photos that regarded extra superior than DALL-E, the AI nonetheless faltered at a number of the duties that appeared to be universally tough for AI. Arms and fingers can usually look wonky. Textual content is commonly gibberish and even made up of non-letters except you explicitly spell out what to say.

There are additionally some directions that Grok would not appear to know but. For instance, I could not get Grok to generate a picture in a selected side ratio, regardless of explicitly asking for 16:9, I needed to go in and crop to that format afterward as an alternative. When asking for photos of individuals, Grok tends to make all of them seem like runway fashions except requested in any other case.

3 Write particular prompts, quite than generic

The extra detailed, the higher

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Like most AI platforms, Grok delivers the very best outcomes when given a selected, well-worded immediate quite than a generic one. As you kind within the textual content field, transcend simply what individuals or objects must be within the picture. Contemplate components like:

• Model: Grok can create photos that look lifelike, or you may ask for a cartoon or perhaps a portray. Contemplate if you would like brilliant, daring colours, or extra muted tones.
• Temper: Specify what kind of tone you might be searching for, whether or not you desire a humorous picture, a darkish depiction, or maybe one thing skilled.
• Background or location: Inform Grok the place this image must be positioned in an effort to get a background that matches your imaginative and prescient. Be particular with settings, like a espresso store or a busy avenue.

4 Ask for tweaks till you get the very best consequence

Grok takes your prompts in context

Grok would not neglect your earlier immediate, which implies in the event you don’t get a superb consequence, you may inform the AI extra particulars. You do not have to re-type the immediate. As a substitute, say, “Regenerate that however with _____.” If you do not have extra textual content to make clear the consequence with, you may hit that round arrow key beneath the unique era to regenerate from the identical immediate.

Some phrases additionally work higher than others, so it’s possible you’ll wish to experiment with rewording your immediate, quite than including extra particulars. Once I requested for a “various” group for instance, it generated a picture of individuals all with the identical darkish pores and skin tone. As soon as I requested for “a wide range of pores and skin tones,” then the AI created a bunch of ethnically various individuals.

On the flip facet, if you wish to create a completely new picture, generally Grok will nonetheless pull particulars from the earlier immediate, just like the background or type that you just requested earlier. If this occurs, merely begin a brand new chat thread so Grok “forgets” your earlier requests.

5 Have enjoyable with Grok’s snarky humorousness

Grok was made to be a much less critical AI

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X’s new AI is thought for each its free content material pointers and its humorousness. Embrace the humorous facet of Grok as you experiment. Grok isn’t a digital camera, so create off-kilter pairings that you just wouldn’t see in actual life to make an announcement, like a sandwich with a facet of on line casino “chips” or a practical rendering of the expression “raining cats and canines.”

6 Examine your privateness settings

X can use your information to tweak Grok

According to X, Grok was pre-trained on a wide range of information pulled from the web, not public X posts or Tweets. Nevertheless, a data-sharing setting is now mechanically turned on by default for X customers, except they opt-out. This setting says that “we could make the most of your X posts in addition to your consumer interactions, inputs, and outcomes with Grok for coaching and fine-tuning functions.”

If you don’t need Grok to be educated in your posts you may choose out by tapping the three-dot or extra menu, deciding on Settings & Privateness, clicking Privateness and Security, then deciding on Grok. Then, uncheck the field to opt-out.

Grok additionally makes use of public Tweets to share real-time information with customers. If you don’t need your posts doubtlessly popping up in Grok, you may have to make your account personal by going to Settings and Privateness > Privateness & Security > Viewers and Tagging > Defend your posts.