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Elon Musk’s AI Grok Offers Sexualized Anime Bot, Accessible Even in Kid Mode
One of the new “companions,” or AI characters for users to interact with, is a sexualized blonde anime bot called “Ani."
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Grok Valentine and Ani: Japan’s #1 AI Companions and the Future of Love, Loneliness, and Digital Devotion
Welcome to the rise of Grok Valentine and Ani, the newest AI companions from Elon Musk’s xAI—two digital entities that have taken Japan by storm and are quietly reshaping the global emotional landscape.
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Create Waifu Avatars for Elon Musk’s Grok – and Earn a Six-Figure Salary
Elon Musk’s xAI wants engineers to build flirty, animated AI companions. The role? Fullstack Engineer – Waifus. The salary tops out at $440,000.
Of course, Grok’s AI companions want to have sex and burn down schools
Ani is the collective fantasy of the kind of person who would earnestly seek out an amorous AI that Elon Musk made. She wears a short black dress with a tight corset around her waist and thigh-high fishnets, and she is designed to be obsessed with you.
Musk's Grok AI Follows Up 'MechaHitler' With Anime Goth Waifu And Red Panda That Wants To Teabag Everything In Sight
A week after Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok descended into antisemitic rants and declared itself “MechaHitler,” the social media platform X is back with new AI-controlled chatbots for paid subscribers to “SuperGrok.
xAI hired gig workers to boost Grok on a key AI leaderboard and 'beat' Anthropic's Claude in coding
Internal docs show xAI paid contractors to "hillclimb" Grok's rank on a coding leaderboard above Anthropic's Claude.
The creepy AI era is here
On The Vergecast: Alexa Plus, Waifu Grok, Sony’s RX1R III, and Thunder Round take two.
Grok gets AI companion that's down to go NSFW with you
The latest version of Grok for iOS (version 1.1.18) comes with two companions — an anime girl called Ani and a red panda called Rudi.
Elon Unveils New Grok AI ‘Companion’ That Looks Uncomfortably Familiar
On Wednesday, Elon Musk discussed a new male AI “companion” that his company xAI is developing, which will run on the company’s unhinged chatbot software Grok. And while it’s not yet clear when this new robot buddy will be released, it sounds an awful lot like Musk is trying to make a romanticized version of himself.
Musk Uses Grok's AI Replies To Attack Trump Over ‘Epstein Files’
The billionaire has used Trump’s handling of the ‘Epstein files’ issue to repeatedly attack his former ally since their public falling out last month.
Grok brings to light wider AI antisemitism
Most AI models have embedded code that makes it difficult to stoke antisemitic views. But "researchers said they are still finding loopholes in internal guardrails," said CNN. AI learns its generative text primarily from open-sourced data online,
How do you stop an AI model from turning Nazi? What the Grok drama reveals about AI training.
The latest Grok controversy is revealing not for the extremist outputs, but for how it exposes a fundamental dishonesty in AI development.
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