People have been using the API for cybersex for a long time now. I mean, I guess the public is surprised because they don't even know what openrouter is.
I question the wisdom of actually attaching your brand to porn uses, but that's rrally just a marketing problem for gis company. He isn't introducing anything new to market. And you can't really stop people from making their own ai sexbots if they havr API access and can write prompts.
Imagine 10 years ago trying to convince someone that "self described Mecha-Hitler rolls out pornographic anime companion and gets Department of Defense contract" would be a real thing.
Pax Americana is over. The Fascist States of America is rapidly falling down through global influence, economic strength, and social standing. It'll be interesting to see what the next global status looks like.
A lot of news articles are covering both parts of this (they are mostly unrelated stories), but only Rolling Stone was brave enough to put both parts in the one headline
Right now there are two different animated characters available to converse with: Bad Rudy, a mean red panda with a vulgar streak who will roast the clothes you’re wearing and call you a “whiny twat” (though this attitude can be toggled on and off) and Ani, a blonde anime woman who, after enough positive engagement, will shed her dress to reveal a lacy lingerie set. Musk shared a clothed image of Ani on his feed on Monday.
In a surreal juxtaposition, as Musk hyped the rollout of the edgy animated personalities, xAI announced that it had entered into a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense and was making its “frontier models” available to all federal agencies and offices through the General Services Administration.
Do we really want "The time my AI bang-maid turned out to be a lethal combat robot" as a light novel? Because this is how that happens. (assuming it hasn't already)
oh, I only saw the one post about it and no one had mentioned it was a porn bot. I thought it was just some stupid image elon had generated. I don't reward clickbaity headlines with clicks until I know theres something worthwhile in them.