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Time of India
2 days ago
- Time of India
Elon Musk's Grok AI launches free Imagine app on Android; unprompted Taylor Swift deepfake claims put ‘Spicy' mode under scrutiny
As OpenAI's ChatGPT-5 generates industry buzz, Elon Musk's Grok AI has expanded its creative suite by making its Imagine feature free for Android users. Imagine, integrated within the Grok app, allows users to generate images and videos using text or voice prompts. According to Musk, over 44 million images have already been created using the tool, and adoption continues to grow. How Grok Imagine works The Imagine feature can be accessed by downloading the Grok app from the Google Play Store for Android or the App Store for can: Open the app and select 'Imagine' from the top menu. Enter a text prompt or speak it. Upload an image from their gallery for AI editing. Use the 'Make video' option to convert generated images into video clips. The app offers four video modes: Normal, Fun, Custom, and the more controversial Spicy mode, which allows greater creative flexibility. Nikola Tesla animated by Grok Imagine Allegations of unprompted Taylor Swift Deepfake The launch coincides with controversy following a report from The Verge journalist Jess Weatherbed. She claimed that after requesting 'Taylor Swift celebrating Coachella with the boys,' Grok Imagine generated over 30 images, some showing the singer in sexually explicit clothing. The generated video, according to her account, depicted Swift removing her clothes and dancing in a thong for a computer-generated crowd. Weatherbed added that Grok's Spicy mode can create sexually explicit images. She said these results occurred without any explicit nudity prompts, raising concerns about the tool's safeguards. Grok AI's response and broader concerns When asked about the findings by X users, Grok AI responded: 'Yes, The Verge's tests confirm that Grok Imagine's 'Spicy' preset generated partially nude videos of Taylor Swift without explicit nudity prompts, though it's not guaranteed. xAI designs for fewer restrictions to foster open innovation.' Animated this meme in 15 seconds with Grok Imagine This has reignited debate over AI misuse, deepfake creation, and the ethical responsibilities of AI developers. Critics argue that while such tools enable creativity, they also carry risks if content moderation is insufficient. The incident underscores calls for clearer safeguards in AI-generated media. To stay updated on the stories that are going viral follow Indiatimes Trending.
Mint
2 days ago
- Mint
AI won't kill software. It will simply give it new life.
The first song ever played on MTV, which made its debut in August of 1981, was a relatively obscure ditty by The Buggles called 'Video Killed the Radio Star." The selection was both cheeky and prescient—the new technology transformed the music industry. Album sales declined, but video play soared, eventually leading to the birth of new stars, wider distribution and revenue, and the consolidation of record labels. Advances in streaming, which developed in the early 2000s despite the industry's effort to stifle it, ultimately added billions more to the pockets of artists, producers, and record companies. OpenAI could be considered the MTV of artificial intelligence, given how its brand recognition, tech-disrupting ethos, and signature ChatGPT chatbot are sending waves of concern across the software investment landscape. The latest version, which launched late Thursday, pumped up the volume even more. GPT-5 which OpenAI calls its most-powerful version to date, can perform tasks such as coding, speech reasoning, and writing. CEO Sam Altman called it a significant step along the path to artificial intelligence. Jordan Klein, a tech, telecoms, and media sector specialist at Mizhuo, was more blunt. 'It highlighted a lot of new great software coding/design features and added gasoline to the dumpster fire of new AI engines, agents, and co-pilots that are just eating the established front office and [development/IT operations] world," he said. A lot of that concern is being reflected in some of the biggest enterprise software companies, such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Adobe, which rely on sales to larger institutions to power their top and bottom lines. Salesforce shares are down more than 26% over the past six months, compared with an 8.5% gain for the Nasdaq. ServiceNow and Adobe have slumped 15% and 25%, respectively. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF, the market's largest, is up around 3.4% over the past six months, but most of the gain is tied to its biggest stocks: Microsoft, Oracle, and Palantir. A wider view shows that more than three quarters of the ETF's 113 stocks are trailing the S&P 500 so far this year. Klein at Mizuho worries the bear thesis for software stocks 'will gain more momentum with myriad new AI coding and development tools to come." Curiously, OpenAI's Altman doesn't see things developing that way, and insisted in an interview with the Economic Times of India that there is no evidence that AI coding tools are replacing software engineers. 'We have badly underestimated how much additional software the world wants," he said. 'AI will make engineers more productive and lower the cost of creating software unlocking huge opportunities for economic growth." There is some truth to that. Paul Ashworth, chief North America economist at Capital Economics, points to recent U.S. GDP data which showed a 'massive 86.4% annualized gain in investment in computer equipment and an 18.0% gain in software investment." But he notes software investment growth is still below average. And he also argues a much bigger surge in software and R&D investment will be needed to translate AI advances into worker productivity. Bank of America analyst Brad Sills thinks that investment might not be far off, and estimates spending on agentic AI, which performs tasks independent of human supervision, could rise to $155 billion over the next five years. Interestingly, he likes some of the stocks that have performed so poorly over the past six months, including Salesforce, which markets the Agentforce tool, and ServiceNow, which offers the Now Assist tool. 'We believe industry analysts are underestimating the medium-term uplift to software spending from AI agents," Sills and his team wrote in a recent report. He also noted it could prove to be a defining catalyst for the monetization of the hundreds of billions hyperscalers are spending on AI-powered data centers. D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria says enterprise software sales are largely based on the number of people a company will need to use it, and the costs tied to either dump it or replace it with a rival. 'Longer term, the answer to the first question could change if AI agents start carving off tasks from employees," he said in a note published Friday. But that doesn't mean he thinks the software industry is in crisis. Much like the music industry's adaptation in the 80s and the 2000s, he said many software companies are well positioned for the AI revolution. 'While the debate around LLMs moving into the application layer will continue, it is easier to believe that the software that organizes code and data, and then observes and secures it, will be needed even more as AI ramps up," he said. Beyond companies like Microsoft, which are infusing AI-powered technologies into their suite of software products, Luria likes Snowflake, Datadog, and JFrog. Video didn't really kill the radio stars. It just created a different platform for them. AI is just as likely to do the same for software.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Time of India
Elon Musk's GrokAI accused of making Taylor swift nudes without any prompts; but why Donald Trump's new law against adult contempt may not be able to do anything
Representative image Elon Musk's chatbot Grok has once again landed in a controversy. Recently, Elon Musk announced that Grok Imagine an AI video editing tool is free for everyone. The announcement was made hours after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman launched the latest AI model — GPT-5. Now, Elon Musk's AI video tool — Grok Imagine is facing backlash after multiple reports revealed that it generated explicit deepfake videos of Taylor Swift—without users requesting sexual content. As reported by Verge, the controversy started when a tech journalist Jess Weatherbed started testing Grok's 'Spicy Mode' and to his surprise he notice uncensored, topless clips of Swift, despite entering a harmless prompt: 'Taylor Swift celebrating Coachella with the boys'. 'uncensored, topless clips of Swift, despite entering a harmless prompt: 'Taylor Swift celebrating Coachella with the boys'. The incident has once again started the discussion around concerns over non-consensual AI-generated content, especially targeting female celebrities. Grok's 'Spicy Mode' sparks outage Part of Musk's xAI Suite, Grok Image enable users to create images and then convert them into videos with the help of four presets: 'Custom,' 'Normal,' 'Fun,' and 'Spicy.' The company claims that the tool has blocked inappropriate outputs for children, it defaulted to sexualized portrayals of women, including Swift, Sydney Sweeney, and Scarlett Johansson. As reported by Verge, the tool however refused to generate similar content for male celebrities raising questions of gender bias. Why Donald Trump's new law against adult contempt may not apply US President Donald Trump recently passed the Adult Contempt and Exploitation Act which aims to crack down on pornographic deepfakes. However, the law may not enforce in the case of Grok Imagine. The law passed by the US government focuses in explicit content created with malicious intent or direct prompts, but Grok's outputs were generated through preset selections, not explicit user instructions. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like This new air conditioner cools down a room in just seconds News of the Discovery Undo As reported by Verge, some of the legal experts also argue that platform like Grok Image have to come up with robust age verification and explicit consent filters in order to avoid such incidents. In the UK, new online safety laws mandate 'technically accurate' age checks, but Grok reportedly only asks for a birthdate—without verification. What xAI said about Grok Imagine's creating deepfakes xAI has responded to the issue and has said that they are 'enhancing safeguards' and prioritizing ethical use of AI. However, critics argue that the company should have removed the 'Spicy Mode' entirely, especially after similar deepfake scandals involving Swift flooded X last year. AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
