Elon Musk's AI company xAI unveiled lewd, anime-styled chatbots, including a hypersexualized goth character named Ani. Musk publicly reacted to images and clips of these companions with comments such as "Ani is OK" and "Nice," sometimes using emojis. One clip Musk replied to was removed, and attempts to convert suggestive images into videos produced distorted, disjointed results from xAI's tools. Many users on X mocked the focus on sexualized chatbots and questioned priorities like Mars colonization and political ambitions. Critics described the pivot as repulsive and misaligned with broader technological promises.
Many AI boosters say the tech is poised to cure disease and usher humanity into a new age of prosperity. But billionaire and xAI CEO Elon Musk has shifted his AI startup's focus to lewd, anime-styled chatbots that will happily undress themselves for drooling users. Case in point, xAI recently revealed cringe AI "companions," including a hypersexualized goth anime girl dubbed Ani. The major pivot to cartoonized smut has resulted in Musk seemingly becoming infatuated himself.
"Ani is OK," Musk tweeted in a creepy response to a picture of the anime girl, replacing "OK" with an emoji of a hand making the "okay" symbol. A separate clip of Ani that Musk responded to with the same tweet has been taken down, suggesting even for Musk, it may have gone a little too far. "Nice," Musk tweeted in response to a graphic clip of AI-generated women dressed in extremely skintight latex suits.
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