One is a sexy anime waifu called Ani, that «is obsessed» with you and totally in love. The bot gets more and more NSFW as you progress and «level up» to lingerie views and increasingly raunchy chats, writes TechCrunch.
Bad Rudy is really, really bad
The second is fairly innocuous red panda named Rudy that you can turn into full 4chan rage mode with the right prompt, like simply saying «bad Rudy» in the chat.
Twitter users have been posting videos of their encounters with the avatar, and it seems so aggressively profane it is completely over the top. A common reaction is not feeling insulted, but laughter.
One user simply said “bad Rudy” to trigger the mode, and then got thi seriously offensive, NSFW and all kinds of profane video on return.
«Not some try-hard Mecha Hitler»
He will then go on to talk about burning churches, schools, synagogues and even bomb tech conferences.
When asked about Twitter Grok’s recent Hitler rants, he tells TechCrunch:
— No, that’s just stupid, you edgy moron. My name is Rudy, chaos god. Not some try-hard Mecha Hitler.
It is important to note that all this profanity ridden edge lord talk favors no one and spares no one.
No particular group or religion is singled out — not even Elon Musk is protected.
Is this… legal?
They do, however, spark quite a few questions about ethical AI and the responsibility of xAI as the creators of this.
Character.ai is, for example, still embroiled in a wrongful death lawsuit for encouraging the suicide of a young teen, where a judge recently ruled that first amendment protections don’t apply to chatbots.
Should anyone act on Bad Rudy’s encouragements, we could expect the lawsuits to fly in their direction.
The avatars require a SuperGrokHeavy subscription to unlock, which Is $3000 per year, but some users have unlocked them for free in the Grok app.
You can see more clips and discussion on x.com, for Bad Rudy and Ani. Please note these are borderline NSFW and definitively contain profane, offensive language.
Read more: A more detailed run with the bots at TechCrunch. Wired has some thoughts (paywalled). See above for x.com links, and discussion on r/singularity.