6 ideas, methods, 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 capability to generate photos with fewer restrictions than different platforms. However, Grok 2 additionally tends to generate extra practical 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 fame earlier than even leaving beta.

Nonetheless, benefiting 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 use the AI, however use the AI in probably the most moral approach potential.

Earlier than you begin typing in that immediate field, these 6 methods and ideas will enable you to profit from the brand new X AI.

1 Be conscious 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 riot,” which loosely interprets right into a chatbot that has fewer guidelines, significantly regarding picture era. Not like DALL-E or Google Gemini , Grok can generate photos of recognizable folks, replicate the fashion of a particular artist and even a particular piece of paintings, and reproduce different mental property together with logos and licensed characters.

However, simply because Grok can do these issues doesn’t suggest you ought to. Even when wielding Grok and a keyboard as a substitute 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 folks might danger violating Right of Publicity in relevant states, laws that stops somebody’s likeness from being commercially exploited.

Some can also 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 firms to court docket 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 out there sources from the web,” nevertheless 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 paintings suggests copyrighted work could also be a part of the information.

The ethics of utilizing any AI platform apply to Grok as properly, 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 arms 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 isn’t any exception. Grok’s strengths lie in its extra practical picture era, its capability to deal with duties like producing photos that seem like celebrities, and its give attention to humor. When evaluating Grok to DALL-E, I’ve discovered Grok produced photos that had been extra practical (although nonetheless had a couple of tell-tale AI indicators).

However, Grok 2 is a younger program nonetheless in beta, and it has some limitations, regardless of its fame for having looser content material tips. Whereas Grok itself will inform you that it is multimodal, it is not, or at the least not but. There is not an possibility 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 presently.

Whereas Grok usually delivered photos that regarded extra superior than DALL-E, the AI nonetheless faltered at among the duties that gave the impression to be universally troublesome for AI. Palms and fingers can usually look wonky. Textual content is commonly gibberish and even made up of non-letters until 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 particular side ratio, regardless of explicitly asking for 16:9, I needed to go in and crop to that format afterward as a substitute. When asking for photos of individuals, Grok tends to make all of them seem like runway fashions until requested in any other case.

3 Write particular prompts, slightly than generic

The extra detailed, the higher

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Like most AI platforms, Grok delivers the very best outcomes when given a particular, well-worded immediate slightly than a generic one. As you sort within the textual content field, transcend simply what folks or objects ought to be within the picture. Think about components like:

• Fashion: Grok can create photos that look practical, or you’ll be able to ask for a cartoon or perhaps a portray. Think about if you need vivid, daring colours, or extra muted tones.
• Temper: Specify what kind of tone you’re searching for, whether or not you need a humorous picture, a darkish depiction, or maybe one thing skilled.
• Background or location: Inform Grok the place this image ought to be positioned with a purpose to get a background that matches your imaginative and prescient. Be particular with settings, like a espresso store or a busy road.

4 Ask for tweaks till you get the very best consequence

Grok takes your prompts in context

Grok would not overlook your earlier immediate, which suggests in the event you don’t get an excellent consequence, you’ll be able to 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’ll be able to hit that round arrow key beneath the unique era to regenerate from the identical immediate.

Some phrases additionally work higher than others, so you could wish to experiment with rewording your immediate, slightly than including extra particulars. After I requested for a “numerous” 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 gaggle of ethnically numerous folks.

On the flip aspect, if you wish to create a completely new picture, typically Grok will nonetheless pull particulars from the earlier immediate, just like the background or fashion 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 understood for each its unfastened content material tips and its humorousness. Embrace the humorous aspect 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 a press release, like a sandwich with a aspect of on line casino “chips” or a sensible rendering of the expression “raining cats and canine.”

6 Test 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. Nonetheless, a data-sharing setting is now mechanically turned on by default for X customers, until they opt-out. This setting says that “we might 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 do not need Grok to be skilled in your posts you’ll be able to decide 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 do not need your posts probably popping up in Grok, you may have to make your account personal by going to Settings and Privateness > Privateness & Security > Viewers and Tagging > Shield your posts.