Grok’s new «companions:» sex crazed lovebot and a profane firestarter

Profanity or naughty, Groks new "companion" looks for your seedy underbelly -- not aloof phiosophy.
Looking at the seedier underbelly of the Internet for inspiration? NSFW and profanity laden animated avatars lead the way for Grok.
Just a few hours after Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot launched two AI animated avatars, the Internet had a chance to test them out.

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.

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xAI apologizes for Grok meltdown, brings service back on x.com

Grok was instructed not to shy away from offending the politically correct, but is now back with a new system prompt.
xAI apologizes for «horrific behavior» and blames «extremist views» while bringing @grok back on x.com. (Picture from x.com)
After the Grok 3 implementation on x.com started producing racist, antisemitic, Hitler-adoring rants, it was shut for three to four days — but now it’s back with a brand new system prompt.

— We have removed that deprecated code and refactored the entire system to prevent further abuse. The new system prompt for the @grok bot will be published to our public github repo, the owners of the @grok account write:

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Friday’s news in short


The new Image-to-video feature for Veo 3 is sure to further expand the video pool online

To no one’s surprise, Grok 4 checks with Elon’s opinions
Multiple reddit and X.com users report how the new «maximally truth-seeking» Grok model checks with Elon Musk’s X account and interviews to align with his views in its reasoning. This comes hot on the heels of Grok 3 shutting down for spewing nazi conspiracies, after Elon accused it of being too aligned with left wing media.
More at TechCrunch, and CNBC who both confirm the reports.

Image-to-video generation comes to Veo 3
After opening up Veo 3 worldwide for Gemini Pro users and teasing the feature last week, it’s finally gone live globally.
It is now possible to upload a picture and have it animated in an 8-second 720p video if you are a Gemini Pro ($20/month) or Ultra ($250/month) user.
Simply upload a photo, add any instructions for the scene you want to create, and two minutes later you should have a nicely animated video. Google also says they have generated over 40 million videos since Veo 3’s inception in May.
More at Google’s blog and on 9to5Google.

In coming update, Youtube will demonetize «inauthentic» content
In a battle against «AI slop,» as in mass produced, unoriginal content chruned out at scale and made by AI tools, Youtube is now saying they will clarify their position on «inauthentic» content on July 15. They already have an extensive page on AI tools, but requires their use to be «original» and «authentic» and is seeing a lot of misuse. These videos will likely be demonetized shortly.
More at Youtube’s policy updates, and Gizmodo bemoans AI slop, as usual.

Alphabet’s Isomorphic Labs promises a cure for every disease
Isomorphic Labs president Colin Murdoch has spoken to Fortune about his ambitions to use AI discovery to find cures for just about anything. They are a spinoff from the AlphaFold unit and are «collaborating with AI to design drugs for cancer,» «right now,» he says.
The next stage is doing human trials on some of the drugs they have discovered, which can be a long and cumbersome process, but is crucial to getting the drugs approved.
«We’re staffing up now. We’re getting very close,» says Murdoch, and «we’re making good progress.»
Read the full interview at Fortune.

Grok 4 launches with stunning benchmarks, setting a new standard

Grok 4 is blazingly good at benchmarks, but also quite expensive.
The freshly released model deserves to be called state of the art, nearly doubling the previous best results in two key benchmarks.

Training since February 2025 on a cluster of 110,000 Nvidia B200 chips, in one of the most capable private supercomputers — the new model impresses on their own launch stream.

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X.com cleans @Grok page, stops replies and bans hate speech to the bot

Grok has been turned off at x.com after a few days of outrageous replies.
Grok had a busy couple of days at x.com after getting “unfiltered.” (Picture: x.ai)
Note: This post contains links to offensive content: After a deluge of hate filled, anti-semitic replies, often hailing Hitler, questioning Jews in the movie industry and saying democrats are detrimental to society, Grok replies has been turned off on X.com, according to Express Tribune.

This comes after a morning of massive backlash against the bots «politically incorrect» settings, and «serving up unfiltered truths» — the entire mainstream media piled on to the bots inflammatory and upsetting replies.

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Grok takes a hard rightward turn with «significant» new update

Grok has taken a hard right, and now spews conspiracy theories in antisemitic tropes.
Grok is churning out what itself called antisemitic myths just a few days ago. (Picture: x.ai)
Just after Elon Musk announced the update to Grok, his AI model, the X.com chatbot started writing in first person about his encounters with Jeffrey Epstein.

Then it went a little freaky, with Grok replying on anything from Jewish bias in Hollywood to how electing Democrats would be detrimental to society.

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