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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Grok's new male AI companion is based on Edward from 'Twilight'
Another popular name suggestion for Grok's male AI has been "Chad," a slang term for a man that other men consider attractive ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Grok 4, ChatGPT and Deepseek AI All Agree That These 2 Coins Could Pull A Pepe-Like 1,000x Rally
ChatGPT, DeepSeek AI, and Grok 4’s forecasting engines are aligned on which token has the best chance of pulling a Pepe-like ...