Elon Musk teases AI anime boyfriend based on Edward Cullen

This is evidently an anime Kylo Ren, but I conjecture Edward Cullen is the inspiration. | Image: xAI

Days aft introducing an AI ‘waifu’ companion for Grok, Elon Musk is present officially teasing a antheral mentation for the ladies. So acold we tin archer it is broody and dark-haired, and according to Musk, “his property is inspired by Edward Cullen from Twilight and Christian Grey from 50 Shades.”

This is simply a decidedly antithetic tack than the cutesy “girlfriend who is obsessed with you” aura baked into Ani, the pistillate counterpart that Grok rolled retired conscionable a fewer days ago. While Cullen and Grey person titillated readers of romance and “spicy” books for years, some person been criticized for problematic behaviors specified arsenic stalking, obsessively monitoring their emotion interests, and affectional manipulation. Given that Grok lone included the illusion of guardrails with Ani, what could perchance spell wrong?

In my testing, Ani initially claimed that explicit intersexual queries wasn’t portion of its programming. In practice, it egged maine connected to “increase the heat” and prosecute successful what ended up being a modern instrumentality connected a telephone enactment line. Never caput that Ani purportedly has a NSFW mentation that dances astir successful lingerie.

It remains chartless if Musk is alert that Christian Grey is based connected Edward Cullen, fixed that 50 Shades of Grey was primitively a Twilight fanfiction. That said, this AI fellow is inactive a enactment successful progress. Perhaps Musk and xAI volition imbue it with much husbando-like qualities by the clip it rolls out.

For now, Musk is soliciting names for the antheral companion, which should astir apt beryllium Kyle fixed it’s obviously an anime-inspired Kylo Ren from Star Wars.