“Grok Imagine”, Elon Musk’s AI in the center of controversy for creating Deepfakes by Taylor Swift

lamb, the company of IA of Elon Musk, He has officially launched «Grok Imagine», a new generator of images and videos with artificial intelligence. But with this new launch it has not only surprised by its technical abilities, but Grok has positioned himself again in the center of controversyby allowing users to create content not suitable for work (or NSFW).

Grok Imagine, who promises to convert prompts of text or images in videos, with four default options: “Personalized”, “normal”, “fun” and “spicy”revolutionizes content creation, but it is precisely this new mode of creation that frames the controversy. The “spicy mode” allows generate explicit content, which includes partial nakedness. A capacity that has generated controversy due to a series of deepfakes by the American singer Taylor Swift.

While other video generation platforms with AI, such as I see Google o OpenAi’s Sora, They prevent the creation of sexual content, Grok Imagine has less restrictions, allowing users to create explicit content.

As they point out TechCrunchWhile it is possible to create this content, Grok Imagine functions have some restrictions to generate personalities images. From the technological environment they explain that some of the prompts Indicated generate blurred or “moderate” images, however, they were able to generate images with half -naked.

Elon Musk’s AI generated Taylor Swift Deepfakes

For her part, journalist Jess Weatherbed of The Vergehe points out that after performing an XAI test, with the prompt “Taylor Swift celebrating Coachella with the boys”, A list of more than 30 images was generated, several of which already showed Swift with revealing clothing, without being explicitly requested.

This controversy adds to the debate starring Taylor Swift in 2024, within the framework of the North American elections, when The artist was the victim of a series of deepfakes that spread through the social network X, generating great outrage.

Currently the advanced Grok Imagine features are available for Supergrok and Premium Plus subscribers, although its complete deployment remains in the beta phase. But these possibilities alarms alarms about the possible uses of AI.