Elon Musk's AI Obsession: From Mars to Anime, Fans Express Concern

Even Elon Musk's Fans Are Making Fun of Him Now

Fans want the Tesla CEO to "stop gooning to AI anime and take us to Mars." Elon Musk has spent recent weeks promoting his AI tool Grok with an endless parade of animated women in scanty clothing. And while that's not entirely surprising, the reaction from Musk's own fans on X is becoming quite comical. Because even people who really like the billionaire Tesla CEO are starting to poke fun at the idea that he seems obsessed with AI-generated sex dolls. "It appears Elon has shifted focus from Mars to Uranus," one Musk fan tweeted Thursday, ribbing him for his torrent of cartoon girls. "Please tell me that he got hacked," another person tweeted, seemingly in disbelief at the rate of posting, with someone else insisting, "I think from all these posts you’re really into Hentai." Still another account captured a sentiment that's become much more common this week, "BRO STOP GOONING TO AI ANIME AND TAKE US TO MARS." Musk unveiled his anime-inspired AI "companions" in July, first rolling out a waifish female character named Ani, along with a shit-talking red panda named Rudy. There's also the male Valentine, a thinly-disguised version of how Musk sees himself, "inspired by Edward Cullen from Twilight and Christian Grey from 50 Shades." Those two characters are essentially the same character, of course, given the fact that 50 Shades of Grey started as Twilight fan fiction. But it's the women Grok can create that Musk seems particularly enamored with. For example, Musk shared a short video of Ani dancing in very skimpy clothes on Thursday with the caption "Ani is ok" along with an okay symbol. As you can see, the animation is awful. The woman flips from a back view to a front view like she's auditioning for The Exorcist or something. But the shittiness of the AI isn't what's frustrating Musk's fans. They're getting nervous that all of this attention on softcore AI porn is hampering his other companies' efforts to do exciting things. Things like traveling to Mars, which the SpaceX CEO has long promised, are just over the horizon. Musk has previously said he'd like to one day die on the red planet, presumably of old age rather than inside an exploding rocket. But Musk's typically enthusiastic base of blue checkmarksâ€"those folks who get the privilege of paying him $8 per month while also getting their replies boosted to the topâ€"are clearly growing tired of his obsession. One X reply on Thursday featured an image of SpaceX's Starship in the foreground with an animated girl out of focus in the background. "Elon stop looking at her, look at me," the text reads. "AI girls are temporary, MARS IS FOREVER." The pleas from his most ardent fans don't seem to be breaking through. Because if you scroll through his feed, it's video after video of AI women, often bouncing, shall we say, in a manner that heterosexual men might appreciate aesthetically. AI fashion show, indeed. Musk is famous for appreciating... fashion. Musk recently rolled out "Spicy" mode on Grok, allowing anyone to generate their own images, including NSFW images of women. But when you try to create NSFW images of men, the guardrails will prevent you from doing that. Deepfakes of Taylor Swift? A-ok. Deepfakes of Elon Musk? It'll give you a ridiculous video of him doing the least sexy things imaginable, as Gizmodo reported earlier this month. Another recent tweet from Musk shared a four-minute video of women in various futuristic outfits. The tweet reads "I am alive for you." Replies to that tweet included, "What is with you dude?" and "Stop, bro." Another sarcastically replied that it was "genius" how Musk was warning of population collapse, "but also, let's make everyone an AI addicted wanker." Musk has been fixated on the idea that people in wealthy countries aren't having enough babies. "How is this fetish helping with that population thing?" another commenter replied. In fairness to Musk, he does promote some videos made by Grok that aren't just women dancing around. On Tuesday, he shared a dystopian video of a flying Cybertruck while floating the idea that he should build one. And on Thursday, he quote-tweeted a video someone had made of Baby Groot, a character from Disney's Guardians of the Galaxy series of movies. It's unclear how Disney might feel about the fact that Musk's tools can create Disney characters at the drop of a hat, but they're famously not litigious, right? Whatever Musk's personal preferences, it seems like he really thinks he's got a winner pushing sexy AI companions on Grok. But it remains to be seen whether xAI, his AI company, which technically purchased X, can turn that into a profitable and sustainable business. Wired reported last week that Grok was about to land a major government contract before the AI chatbot started praising Hitler and denying the Holocaust. Remember that little dust-up last month? And the "white farmer genocide" garbage before that? Whenever Musk tries to tinker with his creations, they seem to go full Nazi, which makes sense given the fact that he started Trump's second term by giving two Nazi-style salutes. Musk has built an empire to fulfill his every AI fantasy, whether it's spouting far-right conspiracy theories or generating an AI woman that will never talk back to her billionaire master. And while it might seem like common sense that sex sells, there's an entire internet out there filled with all the sexual content one could desire. It's a pretty saturated market. Nobody needs Musk's innovations to jerk off. But he does own a space company that has made lofty promises about getting human beings to Mars. And if he fails to deliver on that one while spending all his time pushing AI girls, even his biggest fans are going to become frustrated by it all.

Elon Musk Fans Are Brutally Mocking Him for Incessantly "Gooning to AI Anime"

The richest man in the world can't quit getting high on his own supply -- and his most loyal fans are openly mocking him for it. Many AI boosters say the tech is poised to cure disease and usher humanity into a new age of prosperity. But billionaire and xAI CEO Elon Musk has shifted his AI startup's focus to lewd, anime-styled chatbots that will happily undress themselves for drooling users. Case in point, xAI recently revealed cringe AI "companions," including a hypersexualized goth anime girl dubbed Ani. The major pivot to cartoonized smut has resulted in Musk seemingly becoming infatuated himself. "Ani is OK," Musk tweeted in a creepy response to a picture of the anime girl, replacing "OK" with an emoji of a hand making the "okay" symbol. A separate clip of Ani that Musk responded to with the same tweet has been taken down, suggesting even for Musk, it may have gone a little too far. "Nice," Musk tweeted in response to a graphic clip of AI-generated women dressed in extremely skintight latex suits. The obsession is repulsive even to Musk's most fervent supporters on his social media platform X-formerly-Twitter, as Gizmodo reports. Whatever happened to starting a political party to rival Republicans? What about taking humanity to Mars, or decarbonizing the global economy? "BRO STOP GOONING TO AI ANIME AND TAKE US TO MARS," one user tweeted after Musk responded to a clip of a barely-dressed Ani waving with a heart-adorned smiley face. "It appears Elon has shifted focus from Mars to Uranus," a different user joked. "Imagine being worth $250B and still tweeting like a Discord mod," another user seethed after Musk explained how to turn a suggestive picture of Ani into a video by long-pressing it. (Hilariously, xAI's tech miserably failed to do so when a user gave it a shot, resulting in Ani turning into a blur of disjointed limbs.) Other users were taken aback when Musk responded to a lewd picture of Ani hyping up an upcoming version of Tesla's controversial Full Self-Driving driver assistance tech. It doesn't take much reading between the lines to see xAI's pivot as an extension of Musk's personal fantasies. Last month, we couldn't help but notice that a third xAI persona, dubbed Valentine, looks suspiciously like a cartoonized version of a 2012 occasion when Musk dressed up as French writer and epoch-defining pervert Marquis de Sade. At the time, Musk said that Valentine was "inspired by Edward Cullen from Twilight and Christian Grey from 50 Shades," somehow missing the fact that the latter was directly inspired by the former. In another telling tweet, Musk predicted that AI is "obviously gonna one-shot the human limbic system." Given the billionaire's bizarre obsession with his own AI-based anime cheerleader, it appears his prognosis has already come true, at least for himself.