Elon Musk’s AI bot provides a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode

Individuals who pay for entry to SuperGrok can now attempt the AI chatbot’s new “Companions” avatars, xAI proprietor Elon Musk introduced Monday morning. The companions accessible at the moment embrace Ani, an anime avatar, and Rudy, a cartoony crimson panda.

Ani additionally has what TestingCatalog describes as an “NSFW” mode the place the character wears lingerie. (And only a warning: for those who seek for posts concerning the characters on X, you’ll in all probability come throughout NSFW movies.)

Proper now, customers have to enter settings to activate the companions, however “we’ll make this simpler to activate in just a few days,” Musk says, describing this model as a “tender launch.” Though I’m a free person of Grok, after I opened the Grok app, I used to be in a position to discuss to each avatars, so the characters could also be extra extensively accessible.

Customers have discovered that one other AI character referred to as “Chad” is within the works. The app already has a voice mode the place you’ll be able to chat backwards and forwards with a faceless model of Grok, and that has an NSFW toggle.

The addition of the animated characters follows Grok posting antisemitism and Hitler reward final week, which xAI stated was due to an “replace to a code path upstream of the @grok bot.”