Mark Daley , Western University and Carson Johnston , Western University Article content

Grok is a generative artificial intelligence (genAI) chatbot by xAI that, according to Elon Musk, is “ the smartest AI in the world .” Grok’s latest upgrade is Ani, a porn-enabled anime girlfriend, recently joined by a boyfriend informed by Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey .

This summer, both xAI and OpenAI launched updated versions of their chatbots. Each touted improved performance, but more notably, new personalities. xAI introduced Ani; OpenAI rolled out a colder-by-default GPT-5 with four personas to replace its unfailingly sycophantic GPT-4o model .

Similar to claims made by Google DeepMind and Anthropic , both companies insist they’re building AI to “ bene

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