David Bridges
Key Highlights
- Focus Shift: Elon Musk seems to prioritize AI-generated characters over SpaceX missions.
- Fan Reactions: Musk’s followers on X are increasingly mocking his obsession with anime-inspired AI companions.
- AI Features: Grok includes a “Spicy” mode for generating NSFW images, notably favoring female characters.
- Business Concerns: Questions arise about the viability of Musk’s AI ventures amidst distractions from core projects like Mars exploration.
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.”
What is Elon Musk’s fantasy world?
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.
Ani is ok 👌 pic.twitter.com/NFnkuG6SeQ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 21, 2025
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 checkmarks—those folks who get the privilege of paying him $8 per month while also getting their replies boosted to the top—are clearly growing tired of his obsession.
Are we going to Mars or just playing around?
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.”
— Renata Konkoly 🚘⚡🪡 (@RenataKonkoly) August 21, 2025
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 contest🔥🔥 https://t.co/yQa6PxGHNH
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 20, 2025
AI fashion show, indeed. Musk is famous for appreciating… fashion.
How spicy does this get?
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.”
Nice https://t.co/0NUSuDt6u3
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 20, 2025
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.
From sexbots to family entertainment
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.
Cute https://t.co/rTqX98Zuny
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 21, 2025
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.
What is Musk selling?
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.
Ethan Carter
