Days after introducing an AI ‘waifu’ companion for Grok, Elon Musk is now formally teasing a male model for the women. To this point we will inform it’s broody and dark-haired, and according to Musk, “his persona is impressed by Edward Cullen from Twilight and Christian Gray from 50 Shades.”
This can be a decidedly totally different tack than the cutesy “girlfriend who’s obsessive about you” aura baked into Ani, the feminine counterpart that Grok rolled out only a few days in the past. Whereas Cullen and Gray have titillated readers of romance and “spicy” books for years, each have been criticized for problematic behaviors reminiscent of stalking, obsessively monitoring their love pursuits, and emotional manipulation. On condition that Grok solely included the phantasm of guardrails with Ani, what might presumably go unsuitable?
In my testing, Ani initially claimed that express sexual queries wasn’t a part of its programming. In follow, it egged me on to “enhance the warmth” and have interaction in what ended up being a contemporary tackle a telephone intercourse line. By no means thoughts that Ani purportedly has a NSFW model that dances round in lingerie.
It stays unknown if Musk is conscious that Christian Grey is based on Edward Cullen, provided that 50 Shades of Gray was initially a Twilight fanfiction. That mentioned, this AI boyfriend remains to be a piece in progress. Maybe Musk and xAI will imbue it with extra husbando-like qualities by the point it rolls out.
For now, Musk is soliciting names for the male companion, which ought to in all probability be Kyle given it’s clearly an anime-inspired Kylo Ren from Star Wars.