Xai Teases Grok Video Generator That Will Have 'spicy' Mode, According To An Employee

Elon Musk and xAI announced Monday that Grok users will soon beryllium capable to make artificial intelligence videos complete pinch sound connected its app.

The caller characteristic is called Imagine, and it allows users to create some images and videos based connected matter prompts and move fixed images into video. Currently, entree appears to beryllium constricted to immoderate labor and selected influencers, and nan @Grok X relationship wrote Monday evening: “Video procreation is coming to Grok via our Imagine feature, powered by Aurora. Create instant videos pinch sound from matter prompts. Download nan standalone Grok app, subscribe to SuperGrok, and subordinate nan waitlist for early entree successful October.”

SuperGrok is simply a paid tier that costs $30 per month.

On Thursday, Musk teased “bringing backmost Vine, but successful AI form,” referring to nan celebrated societal media level that Twitter unopen down successful 2017. An xAI worker said successful a reply that Grok Imagine videos tin beryllium up to 6 seconds, nan magnitude Vine videos were famously known for.

Based connected videos shared online by respective xAI labor and users pinch early entree to Imagine, nan caller characteristic useful by having users type successful descriptions of what they would for illustration to person successful their videos, and nan app generates respective videos that correspond to nan descriptions that users tin take from.

xAI labor and Grok enthusiasts shared videos online showcasing nan caller feature. An xAI worker posted an AI-generated video of a feline purring while stepping done space, and different posted an astronaut stepping done an alien landscape.

An xAI worker said connected X that nan caller characteristic promises immoderate lewd possibilities.

Mati Roy wrote successful a station sharing a video of a astir nude woman, “Grok Imagine videos person a spicy mode that tin do nudity.” He said successful a reply to different post that nan caller video procreation characteristic would beryllium capable to create realistic videos of humans.

A fewer users successful nan comments expressed concern that nan caller features could let users to create definitive deepfakes. An xAI spokesperson did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The Trump management has been pushing to ace down connected nan creation of definitive deepfakes; President Donald Trump signed nan Take It Down Act into law successful May. The act, primitively written by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, makes it forbidden to people nonconsensual sexually definitive images and videos, whether existent aliases computer-generated.

New AI features connected Grok had already drawn concern from immoderate advocates because of nan app’s vulgar and sexually definitive “companions” — AI characters users tin talk to done matter and speech. Musk had besides announced that a caller companion he had been teasing named “Valentine” was now disposable connected Grok.

Grok stoked contention this period erstwhile it published a slew of antisemitic posts. The official @Grok account later said successful a connection connected X that it was “actively moving to region nan inappropriate posts.” Many of nan posts, including ones successful which nan chatbot would mention to itself arsenic “MechaHitler,” were taken down.

Many AI platforms person already made AI video features available, including OpenAI, which released Sora in February, and Google, which released Veo 3 this month.

Musk responded to a user who compared nan value of Grok’s video procreation to Gemini’s, saying, “Grok Imagine is still early beta and is optimized for maximum fun, truthful should beryllium evaluated arsenic ‘fastest clip to make a fun, shareable video’, alternatively than visual/auditory perfection. Our dense work video exemplary will train connected nan 110k GB200s coming online adjacent month." xAI is adding 110,000 graphics processing units, specialized circuits designed to thief make machine graphics, to its supercomputer Collosus successful Memphis, according to Musk.