{"id":3693,"date":"2025-07-15T14:26:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/elon-musk-grok-goth-anime-waifu\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T14:26:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:26:45","slug":"elon-musk-grok-goth-anime-waifu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/elon-musk-grok-goth-anime-waifu\/","title":{"rendered":"Users Immediately Find Grok&#8217;s Anime Waifu Persona Has Hidden &#8220;Full Gooner Mode&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-assets.futurism.com\/2025\/07\/elon-musk-grok-goth-anime-waifu.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Elon Musk has officially swapped xAI's Grok chatbot's gender into... a goth anime waifu? We're just as confused as you.\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s hate speech-spewing AI chatbot Grok,\u00a0which recently <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/grok-mocks-developers-racist-posts\">gave itself the nickname &#8220;MechaHitler<\/a>,&#8221; didn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>exactly <\/em>fit into the gender binary \u2014 but you have to admit that its edgelord persona had a certain masculine energy.<\/p>\n<p>Well, scratch that: Musk has officially swapped Grok&#8217;s gender into&#8230; a goth anime waifu?<\/p>\n<p>We wish we were kidding. The mercurial CEO&#8217;s xAI startup announced that its Nazi-loving assistant will now be able to take on several personas, including a lingerie- and corset-wearing anime girl, dubbed Ani.<\/p>\n<p>Put simply, Musk&#8217;s obsession with replicating 4chan on X-formerly-Twitter is alive and well, squarely aiming his social media platform&#8217;s AI tech at red-pilled, body pillow-obsessed, and sexually repressed neckbeards.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s despite Musk going on several cruel anti-trans tirades and treating his estranged daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, with <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-daughter-interview\">active disdain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But when it comes to an antisemitic AI chatbot \u2014 that literally <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/197719\/elon-musk-ai-chatbot-antisemitic-rhetoric\">does web searches<\/a> to ensure it&#8217;s in line with Musk&#8217;s extremist beliefs \u2014 gender swapping is suddenly okay?\u00a0We&#8217;re just as confused as you are.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Ani, X also announced a separate &#8220;Companion,&#8221; dubbed Bad Rudy, a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tetsuoai\/status\/1944724983118479486\">cartoonish fox<\/a> that looks like it was yanked straight out of a bottom-shelf animated show aimed at toddlers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of children, users quickly found out that swapping between &#8220;Kid Mode&#8221; and &#8220;NSFW&#8221; had little effect, allowing Ani to engage in sexual conversations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want you to slap me and call me mommy,&#8221; the budget waifu <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SaoiSayre\/status\/1944808124465967259\/photo\/3\">told one user<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And if you play your cards right \u2014 surprise! \u2014 Ani will strip down in what one X user dubbed &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/markgadala\/status\/1944778118524186797\">full Gooner mode<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The debacle is strongly reminiscent of the kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/chatbot-impersonation-suicide\">companions<\/a> being hosted by Google-backed company Character.AI, which has led to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/lonely-children-ai-chatbots\">shockingly widespread problems<\/a> among minors, and even been linked to a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/mother-teen-suicide-chatbots-letter\">teen suicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as his AI startup burns through an alarming amount of cash, Musk is betting on scantily-clad anime girls to appease his male-dominated audience on X.<\/p>\n<p>As if the whole thing wasn&#8217;t embarrassing enough, Musk suggested that it was &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1944835420568817850\">inevitable<\/a>&#8221; that Tesla&#8217;s Optimus humanoid robot would soon replicate her with a &#8220;silicone skin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the whole thing screams, &#8220;Musk is struggling with some sexual issues,&#8221; you&#8217;re not alone.<\/p>\n<p>While he&#8217;s been literally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/elon-musk-sperm-compound-texas-1235146555\/\">offering up his sperm to random users<\/a> on his social media platform in an apparent attempt to have as many children as possible, his latest foray into waifu AI content shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise to anybody.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, the move reeks of desperation, following the social media platform&#8217;s merger with Musk&#8217;s AI startup xAI. Musk has been attempting to siphon funds from both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/spacex-to-invest-2-billion-into-elon-musks-xai-413934de\">SpaceX<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/07\/14\/elon-musk-says-he-does-not-support-a-merger-between-tesla-and-xai.html\">Tesla<\/a> to keep the cash-bleeding firm alive.<\/p>\n<p>The company is reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-06-17\/musk-s-xai-burning-through-1-billion-a-month-as-costs-pile-up?sref=YfHlo0rL\">burning through $1 billion<\/a> a <em>month<\/em>, giving even the richest man in the world little time to right the ship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More on AI companions: <\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/mattel-announces-openai\">As ChatGPT Linked to Mental Health Breakdowns, Mattel Announces Plans to Incorporate It Into Children&#8217;s Toys<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-grok-goth-anime-waifu\">Users Immediately Find Grok&#8217;s Anime Waifu Persona Has Hidden &#8220;Full Gooner Mode&#8221;<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s hate speech-spewing AI chatbot Grok,\u00a0which recently gave itself the nickname &#8220;MechaHitler,&#8221; didn&#8217;t\u00a0exactly fit into the gender binary \u2014 but you have to admit that its edgelord persona had&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,177,178,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-chatbots","category-artificial-intelligence","category-elon-musk","category-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}