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.”
Elon’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.
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