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

When X, formerly Twitter , launched Grok 2 , the AI grew to become shortly identified for its snarky humorousness and its skill 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 is still decrease than Google and ChatGPT’s $20 a month AI subscriptions, has earned the software program a status earlier than even leaving beta.

Nonetheless, benefiting from the platform’s capabilities requires a little bit of know-how to get the most effective outcomes. Like most AI platforms, the way you phrase the immediate issues. However, with Grok’s looser restrictions, customers ought to perceive not simply how you can use the AI, however how you can use the AI in essentially the most moral method attainable.

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

1 Be conscious of AI ethics

Grok can do issues it in all probability should not…

X / Grok

X describes Grok as an AI with “a splash of rebel,” which loosely interprets right into a chatbot that has fewer guidelines, notably regarding picture technology. 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 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 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 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 obtainable sources from the web,” but it surely 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 arms or graphics with textual content

The important thing to getting the most effective outcomes from any AI is to grasp the platform’s strengths and weaknesses, and Grok isn’t any exception. Grok’s strengths lie in its extra practical picture technology, its skill 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 had been extra practical (although nonetheless had a number of tell-tale AI indicators).

However, Grok 2 is a younger program nonetheless in beta, and it has some limitations, regardless of its status for having looser content material pointers. Whereas Grok itself will inform you that it is multimodal, it is not, or at the very least 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 present.

Whereas Grok usually delivered photos that seemed extra superior than DALL-E, the AI nonetheless faltered at a few of the duties that appeared 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 grasp 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 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, somewhat than generic

The extra detailed, the higher

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Like most AI platforms, Grok delivers the most effective outcomes when given a selected, well-worded immediate somewhat than a generic one. As you sort within the textual content field, transcend simply what individuals or objects needs to be within the picture. Think about elements like:

• Type: 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 vibrant, daring colours, or extra muted tones.
• Temper: Specify what kind of tone you might be in search of, 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 needs to be positioned to be able 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 most effective consequence

Grok takes your prompts in context

Grok would not neglect your earlier immediate, which suggests in case you don’t get a very good consequence, you’ll be able to inform the AI extra particulars. You do not have to re-type the immediate. As an alternative, 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 technology to regenerate from the identical immediate.

Some phrases additionally work higher than others, so chances are you’ll wish to experiment with rewording your immediate, somewhat than including extra particulars. Once 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 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 severe AI

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X’s new AI is thought for each its unfastened 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 sensible rendering of the expression “raining cats and canine.”

6 Verify 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 robotically turned on by default for X customers, until they opt-out. This setting says that “we could make the most of your X posts in addition to your person 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’ll be able to 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 probably popping up in Grok, you may have to make your account non-public by going to Settings and Privateness > Privateness & Security > Viewers and Tagging > Defend your posts.