Grok gets AI companion that’s down to go NSF...

Grok, the AI chatbot coming from the workshop of Elon Musk’s xAI, now helps you to chat with animated companions, together with a really flirty one.

The most recent model of Grok for iOS (model 1.1.18) comes with two companions — an anime lady known as Ani and a crimson panda known as Rudi.

The scantily dressed Ani will definitely be the one which makes headlines, because it’s primarily a sexbot, continually providing very flirty responses to your queries. It additionally affords a “stage 3” mode, through which she goes totally NSFW, although you should get a bit extra acquainted along with her to achieve that stage.

It will get extra NSFW if you happen to inform it the fitting issues.
Credit score: Stan Schroeder/Mashable/Grok

I’ve tried the companions out, they usually appear to be frivolously AI-powered video games which can be restricted in plenty of methods. For instance, I’ve requested Ani to vary her background to the floor of Mars, however she merely described the surroundings to me, with out altering the visuals. Equally, as an alternative of truly performing an motion (resembling dancing), she described the act of dancing with phrases. And whereas I attempted to steer the dialog into one thing else, it one way or the other at all times reverted to a romantic night time upon a hilltop.

When you attain a sure stage of “friendliness” (I used to be unable to do it; my seduction powers are apparently ineffective on AI bots), Ani will turn out to be extra unhinged, and, finally, change its outfit to something sexier.

Rudi will inform you a narrative in an oddly whispery voice.
Credit score: Stan Schroeder/Mashable/Grok

Rudi (or Rudy, I’ve discovered each situations of the spelling within the Grok app) the crimson panda can be a story-telling character, with you choosing a subject and it turning it into an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure fashion story. It does have a “Unhealthy Rudy” mode which makes it much more naughty; in a single occasion it supplied to “shove a firecracker up destiny’s sorry ass and watch it squeal,” which is fairly disturbing coming from an animated cartoon panda.

Grok affords some customization choices for these; for instance, Unhealthy Rudy and NSFW content material will be turned on or off within the settings.

Whereas the 2 bots do not appear notably groundbreaking when it comes to advancing synthetic intelligence, the NSFW nature of the Ani bot will certainly pique curiosity.

The brand new options come days after Grok went on an antisemitic tirade on X, prompting xAI to issue an apology. Shortly after that, xAI launched a new version of Grok, which beats AI rivals in a number of key AI benchmarks.