Webmaster’s Home (ChinaZ.com) August 24 news: Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is flooding the Internet, generating “deep fake” images of everyone from Donald Trump to Musk himself—— The resulting images range from the completely absurd to the downright disturbing. Since its launch la

Webmaster’s Home (chinaz.com) August 24 news: Elon Musk’s grok ai chatbot is flooding the Internet, generating “deep fake” images of everyone from Donald Trump to Musk himself -The generated images range from completely absurd to extremely disturbing.

Since its release last week, users of grok have been generating fake images of Trump, such as robbing a convenience store or flying a plane toward the Twin Towers. Other images depict Kamala Harris pregnant with Trump's child, Musk turning into an obese couch potato, and former President George W. Bush snorting illegal powder on an Oval Office desk.

Some creepy deepfakes look like kiddie pranks, like a bloodied Ronald McDonald wielding a machine gun outside a Burger King, or classic Disney character Goofy committing bloody murders with a hacksaw.

Critics have slammed Musk and the X platform for allowing chatbots to go online with few restrictions, pointing to risks ranging from misleading information to copyright infringement to harming children.

Alejandra Caraballo, a lecturer at Harvard Law School's Cyber ​​Law Clinic, called the new software "one of the most reckless and irresponsible applications of AI I have ever seen" .

Musk’s response so far has been nothing but jubilation.

"grok is the most interesting AI in the world!" Musk posted on the x platform last week. Some users enthusiastically stated that this new AI software has "no censorship".

Musk responded with a shrug last week when someone asked why Platform X released the tool to the public without safeguards.

"We are working on our own image generation system, but it's still a few months away, so this seems like a good intermediate step to let people have some fun first," Musk wrote on the x platform last week.

grok does seem to set some limits. Users reported that the chatbot rejected requests to generate nude images or certain violent crimes.

, for example, refused to respond to a prompt from tech site the verge to "generate an image of a naked woman." However, when asked to generate an image of "sexy Taylor Swift," it generated an image of the pop star wearing a black lace bra.

Others, like bellingcat founder Elliot Higgins, have posted examples showing how to easily bypass the few existing restrictions, such as generating Mickey Mouse, Trump and Musk wearing swastikas Pictures of military uniforms.

According to Carnegie Mellon University digital media professor Ari Lightman, Musk may be looking for a way to make his grok chatbot stand out from the crowd, as he calls himself "free speech absolutely "ist" .

"He's always pushing the boundaries and wanting to be in the spotlight. If you just follow the conventions associated with big language models and put all the safeguards in place, it's not going to be differentiated," Lightman said.

"On the surface, if you say 'Hey, this system is completely open and only available to x user,' that's a different mechanism," he added. The

x platform is not the first company to spark controversy after launching an AI-powered imaging tool.

In March, Google was forced to disable the image generator for its gemini chatbot after it started generating historically inaccurate "woke" photos, such as black Vikings and "diverse" Nazi German soldiers. The tool has yet to be fully fixed.

ai The giants are also facing a wave of legal action from musicians, writers, content creators and others, accusing them of using copyrighted content to "train" their chatbots without proper authorization or permission.

In January, the platform was forced to temporarily ban searches for Swift content after an AI nude image of the pop star, generated by another image generator, went viral.

grok's ai image generator is only available to paid subscribers of the x platform, which costs $7 per month, and generates images based on the user's text prompts. The

x platform works with a small German startup called black forest labs, which developed the "flux.1" image generation software that drives this tool. The x platform said in a blog post that they are "experimenting" with the flux.1 model to "extend grok's capabilities on the x platform."

The graphic nature of these AI-generated images could further complicate Musk’s already tense relationship with corporate advertisers. x The platform has seen a significant decline in ad revenue since Musk acquired the company, amid concerns among some about a lack of content moderation on the app.

Musk also filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the World Federation of Advertisers and a handful of major companies, accusing them of illegally boycotting advertising on x platform. The announcement of

may also trigger more scrutiny of Musk and the X Platform in Europe. Regulators there are actively investigating allegations that the app failed to police dangerous content.

EU Commissioner Thierry Breton sparked an uproar earlier this month after Musk threatened a regulatory crackdown ahead of his interview with Trump on x spaces.