6 suggestions, tips, and prompts for creating pictures with Grok AI

When X, formerly Twitter , launched Grok 2 , the AI grew to become shortly identified for its snarky humorousness and its potential to generate pictures with fewer restrictions than different platforms. However, Grok 2 additionally tends to generate extra practical pictures than competitors like DALL-E . That, blended 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.

Nevertheless, taking advantage of 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 how you can use the AI, however how you can use the AI in essentially the most moral manner attainable.

Earlier than you begin typing in that immediate field, these 6 tips and suggestions will enable you take advantage of 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 touch of rebel,” which loosely interprets right into a chatbot that has fewer guidelines, significantly regarding picture technology. Not like DALL-E or Google Gemini , Grok can generate pictures of recognizable individuals, replicate the type 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 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 pictures of recognizable individuals may danger violating Right of Publicity in relevant states, laws that forestalls somebody’s likeness from being commercially exploited.

Some might 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 knowledge was gathered. Artists have beforehand taken AI corporations to court docket over utilizing their work to coach knowledge. xAI says Grok 1’s initial training data got here from “a wide range of textual content knowledge from publicly out there sources from the web,” nevertheless it would not specify the place its picture coaching knowledge 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 knowledge originated from. The inclusion of “signatures” in generated paintings suggests copyrighted work could also be a part of the info.

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

2 Embrace Grok 2’s strengths and perceive its weaknesses

Keep away from asking for pictures with close-ups of arms or graphics with textual content

The important thing to getting the very best 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 potential to deal with duties like producing pictures that appear like celebrities, and its deal with humor. When evaluating Grok to DALL-E, I’ve discovered Grok produced pictures that have 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 status for having looser content material pointers. Whereas Grok itself will inform you that it is multimodal, it isn’t, or a minimum of 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 based mostly on that file. It is a text-only enter presently.

Whereas Grok typically delivered pictures that seemed extra superior than DALL-E, the AI nonetheless faltered at among the duties that gave the impression to be universally troublesome for AI. Fingers and fingers can typically look wonky. Textual content is usually 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 particular 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 pictures of individuals, Grok tends to make all of them appear like runway fashions until requested in any other case.

3 Write particular prompts, reasonably 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 reasonably than a generic one. As you sort within the textual content field, transcend simply what individuals or objects must be within the picture. Contemplate components like:

• Model: Grok can create pictures that look practical, or you may ask for a cartoon or perhaps a portray. Contemplate if you would like shiny, daring colours, or extra muted tones.
• Temper: Specify what kind of tone you’re 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 must be positioned as a way 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 implies should you don’t get a very good consequence, you may 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 may hit that round arrow key beneath the unique technology to regenerate from the identical immediate.

Some phrases additionally work higher than others, so it’s possible you’ll need to experiment with rewording your immediate, reasonably than including extra particulars. After 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 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 type that you simply 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 aspect of Grok as you experiment. Grok isn’t a digital camera, so create off-kilter pairings that you simply 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 Examine your privateness settings

X can use your knowledge to tweak Grok

According to X, Grok was pre-trained on a wide range of knowledge pulled from the web, not public X posts or Tweets. Nevertheless, a data-sharing setting is now routinely 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 don’t need Grok to be educated in your posts you may decide out by tapping the three-dot or extra menu, choosing Settings & Privateness, clicking Privateness and Security, then choosing Grok. Then, uncheck the field to opt-out.

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