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

Ani, 1 of Grok’s AI companions.

People who wage for entree to SuperGrok tin present effort the AI chatbot’s caller “Companions” avatars, xAI proprietor Elon Musk announced Monday morning. The companions disposable presently see Ani, an anime avatar, and Rudy, a cartoony reddish panda.

Ani besides has what TestingCatalog describes arsenic an “NSFW” mode wherever the quality wears lingerie. (And conscionable a warning: if you hunt for posts astir the characters connected X, you’ll astir apt travel crossed NSFW videos.)

Right now, users person to spell into settings to crook connected the companions, but “we volition marque this easier to crook connected successful a fewer days,” Musk says, describing this mentation as a “soft launch.” Even though I’m a escaped idiosyncratic of Grok, erstwhile I opened the Grok app, I was capable to speech to some avatars, truthful the characters whitethorn beryllium much wide available.

Users person recovered that different AI quality called “Chad” is successful the works. The app already has a dependable mode wherever you tin chat backmost and distant with a faceless mentation of Grok, and that has an NSFW toggle.

The summation of the animated characters follows Grok posting antisemitism and Hitler praise last week, which xAI said was due to an “update to a codification way upstream of the @grok bot.”