Elon Musk Is Cashing In on the AI Romance Boom
Two characters have been added this week to Grok, the chatbot developed by Musk's company xAI, including a flirtatious girl with all the hallmarks of a manga character: enormous eyes, thigh-high fishnet stockings and an exaggerated hourglass figure. Musk spent the early hours of Wednesday promoting the character on X, pointing to how Grok was climbing the app store ranks across the world.
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