X has a new AI image generator fit for free speech absolutists.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino. The social media platform X launched a new artificial intelligence feature for premium users,

Grock 2. It's a chatbot that can also generate images.

And the outputs are a bit less censored than you might see

with other similar tools. Experimenters online have been able to generate images of

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris,

brandishing guns, Mickey Mouse smoking a cigarette,

and some far more disturbing Tablo.

Grock claims to avoid images that are pornographic, excessively violent, or intended to deceive,

and added its cautious about representing content that might infringinge on existing copyright.

But the guardrails certainly seem to be on the looser side in keeping with owner

Elon Musk's hands-off approach to content moderation.

According to Addie Robertson.

She's senior tech and policy editor at The Verge, and she's been playing around with the tool.

Image generators tend to have a lot of hard limits of things that if you put in a text prompt they just will refuse to generate something.

So this can be the sort of hard limits you might imagine they tend to not generate nudity. A lot of generators also will

block things that are either culturally insensitive like say Nazi insignia or they'll

block pictures of real people because that could be misinformation or deep fakes and they also can block things that they think are just otherwise iffy for causing misinformation or being inflammatory.

Grock tends to have as far as I can tell it has limitations on nudity people have found

some other limitations on things like extreme violence, but it's really just not following most of those rules.

How have you kind of tested its limits? It's a little bit of an unpleasant process. You just think of things that could be harmful

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