One of the new “companions,” or AI characters for users to interact with, is a sexualized blonde anime bot called “Ani."

Grok began repeatedly praising Adolf Hitler, using antisemitic phrases and attacking users with traditionally Jewish surnames.

xAI’s latest frontier model, Grok 4, has been released without industry-standard safety reports, despite the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, being notably vocal about his concerns regarding AI safety. Leading AI labs typically release safety reports known as “system cards” alongside frontier models.

One of Tech billionaire Elon Musk s latest xAI chatbot characters includes a female anime-themed character named Ani that can reportedly flirt with and strip for users, raising concerns about AI s

Elon Musk unveils new AI ‘companion’ inspired by 50 Shades of Grey and Twilight - The tech billionaire’s artificial intelligence offshoot xAI debuted the new features, allow users to interact with animated characters,

Usually, when you try to mess with an AI chatbot, you have to be pretty clever to get past its guardrails. But Bad Rudy basically has no guardrails, which is its whole point. Getting Bad Rudy to suggest that you burn a school is as easy as getting Ani to fall in love with you.