Elon Musk Attracts Controversy With New Grok xAI Anime Girlfriend

Elon Musk may have accused the President himself of being on Epstein’s mythical client list, and is a man who tends to throw the paedophile accusation around with rather reckless abandon, but that hasn’t stopped him releasing a decidedly young looking waifu AI ‘companion’ on his Grok AI chatbot service. Grok has been the most ‘NSFW’ big tech AI chatbot for a while and even launched a ‘sexy chat’ feature last year. Many sex tech pundits predict that the romantic and erotic AI companion market could be a trillion dollar industry eventually, and it would appear that with the launch of flirty anime chatbot ‘Ani’, Musk wants to get his share of the potentially lucrative pie. Musk is a wellknown fan of anime girls, but some killjoys out there believe that lusting after super-cute childlike cartoon representations of young females is the same sort of thing as..well, the same sort of thing as getting massages from teen girls on Lolita Island.

Grok, a product of Musk’s company xAI, is calling the characters “Companions.” So far, there are two companions that users can chat with: a flirty Japanese anime character named Ani who offers to make users’ lives “sexier,” and a red panda named Bad Rudi who insults users with graphic or vulgar language and asks them to join a gang with the goal of creating chaos.

Ani is graphic in a different way. Wearing a revealing dress, it strips to its underwear if a user flirts with it enough, according to videos of interactions posted on X. The two animated characters respond to voice commands or questions, and as they answer, their lips move and they make realistic gestures.

The graphic nature of the companions makes Grok an outlier among the most popular AI chatbots, and it shows how Musk continues to push his AI chatbot in an extreme direction, with a willingness to embrace hateful language and sexual content.

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation, an anti-pornography and anti-sexual exploitation nonprofit, on Tuesday called on xAI to remove the Ani chatbot, saying in a statement that the character was “childlike” and promoted high-risk sexual behavior.

The latest version of Grok has come equipped with a much more sophisticated voice mode. One impressive element of that is the capability to voice ASMR, which Ani – unsurprisingly – is only too eager to indulge in. The following YouTube video discusses the ‘underage’ controversy, as well as giving some examples of Ani in action, including her sexy ASMR voice. As they point out, sexy anime characters with young looking faces tend to be considered ‘legal age’ so long as they have impressive racks, as Ani certainly does.