{"id":1893,"date":"2025-07-11T17:39:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T17:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:44:16","slug":"grok-images-of-musical-and-literary-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/grok-images-of-musical-and-literary-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Grok images of musical and literary heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a mixed attitude about A.I., especially in the realm of art, photography, or images in general. I’ve tried a few different A.I. platforms, and to be honest, just recently heard about Grok<\/a>, which is a Twitter \/ X \/ Elon Musk production. What caught my attention was a reference saying that Grok images “readily reproduce images of popular figures,” which I found interesting, since other A.I. platforms tend to shy away from that.<\/p>\n

So I decided to give it a test run, and created some Grok images of two of my favorite historical figures, at least in the realm of music and literature: Miles Davis and Jack Kerouac. I asked Grok to have Miles and Kerouac hanging out at a bar, and the above image shows the first 2 results I received. I’d say these – especially the first one – depicts an accurate facial representation of these two figures.<\/p>\n

Grok allowed me to refresh to create two new images, and here’s the second pair. Once again, the facial representation is impressive, but here’s a perfect example of where A.I. can still fall glaringly short – it produced one image of Miles Davis with a trumpet – his true instrument – but then shows him wearing a beret and playing a saxophone, which is completely inaccurate.<\/p>\n

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Grok A.I. images of Miles Davis and Jack Kerouac.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At any rate, this is my first exploration of using Grok, and in using their free service, I found it allows 3 queries in a 2 hour window. These two sets of pictures used up two queries, and my third was a text question in which Grok responded with an opinion, which seemed similar to text queries I’ve done with ChatGPT. But I will definitely give Grok credit for its accurate depiction of these two historical figures, at least of their facial appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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