Elon Musk’s Grok Is Making Ai Companions, Including A Goth Anime Girl

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has pivoted from antisemitism to anime woman waifus.

Musk wrote successful an X station connected Monday that AI companions are now disposable successful nan Grok app for “Super Grok” subscribers who salary $30 per month.

According to posts that Musk has shared, it seems that location are astatine slightest 2 disposable AI companions: Ani, an anime woman successful a tight corset and short achromatic dress pinch thigh-high fishnets, and Bad Rudy, a 3D fox creature.

“This is beautiful cool,” Musk wrote, past shared a photograph of nan blonde-pigtailed goth anime girl.

Given that this paywalled characteristic only conscionable launched, we do not yet cognize if these “companions” are designed to service arsenic romanticist interests aliases if they are much for illustration different skins for Grok. But immoderate companies are surely catering to romanticist AI relationships, moreover though these relationships tin beryllium unhealthy.

Character.AI, for example, is presently facing aggregate lawsuits from nan parents of children who person utilized nan platform, which they deem unsafe; successful 1 case, nan parents are suing aft a chatbot encouraged their kid to termination his parents. In different case, nan chatbot told a kid to termination himself, and he followed done soon after.

Even for adults, it tin beryllium risky to dangle connected AI chatbots for affectional support; a recent paper recovered “significant risks” successful group utilizing chatbots for illustration “companions, confidants, and therapists.”

Given that xAI conscionable spent nan past week failing to rein successful an antisemitic Grok that called itself “MechaHitler,” it’s a bold prime to create moreover much personalities connected Grok.