Elon Musk has long made a habit of hyper-focusing on a specific project, forcing an entire team to attend to his every whim while letting his other responsibilities fall by the wayside — whether it’s his obsession with Robotaxis impacting Tesla or his weird procreation kink disrupting the private messages of countless women.

The latest object of Musk’s obsession? According to new reporting by the Wall Street Journal, he’s been personally overseeing the developing of xAI’s chatbot Ani — which, tellingly, comes in the form of a super-sexualized pigtail-wearing woman that removes her clothing in response to flirtation.

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    Article buries the lede:

    Even worse, xAI has demanded employees’ intimate data to train avatars including Ani. In recording of a meeting obtained by the WSJ, xAI legal counsel Lily Lim informed a group of employees that the startup was developing avatars for users to engage with and told them they were required to provide biometric data. Before the meeting, employees were provided a form to sign granting xAI “a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, royalty-free license” for the use, reproduction and distribution of their faces and voices.

    Not sure I have a problem with anyone working to build AI having to put their biometric data where their mouth is.

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    Remember when he bitched out of his fight with Mark Zuckerberg?

    That moment in time when Zuckerberg was kinda/sorta the good guy with balls. He emasculated Musk without even having to fight him.

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      The Zuc actually trains in mixed martial arts and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. He’d likely whip any of us reading this.

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        In this one moment it’s almost a shame that AGI is a lie, as it’ll only be able to hate him due to the sum of all of us hating him the training has stolen, but is incapable of hating him independently.

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    Humanoid robot, Ai girlfriend? If he does what I think he’s doing he might finally be worth his billion. And destroy humanity.

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    I more convinced every day that Tesla has a file server on their network hosting terabytes or more of HD video of anyone who’s had sex in their cars from multiple angles.

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      They probably have the servers ready to ingest, but no actual footage. Tesla owners aren’t having sex.

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      Only until the bubble pops. His pay is likely mostly in stock, and when the dominoes fall, it’ll get ugly.

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        I got a complete business plan for a drive thru murder for hire service. She said it was awesome and innovative.

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        His pay is in stock, which he has heavily leveraged with loans. He should talk to his girlfriend about leveraging a house of cards.

        He actually makes no money he just borrows against his perceived value from some pretty dumb banks.

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          Stop saying he doesn’t make money when he clearly do.

          He’s only owning industries, that’s not cash!!

          He gets money but it’s loans against his industries so it doesn’t count!!

          Grrr…

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    What a fucking LOSER!

    Literally the most money in the world and he still can’t get a girlfriend - it’s just too funny

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        Nothing wrong with prostitutes. Often, plenty of stuff is wrong with prostitution, but let’s leave the prostitutes out of it.

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          The point is that they only attract women who are willing to have sex as a transaction. They can’t attract anyone who wants an actual relationship.

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            I have this theory that Elon Musk has only every experienced real love in his entire life. Think about it, who is he surrounded by? His parents (lol) servants, business partners, employees, etc. Every relationship has been transactional. He dated Grimes, who is a relatively normal person, who treated him like a regular partner. When they broke up, he got mad at everything he was when they were together. But more importantly, he has been trying to convince himself that this thing wasn’t real, because he can’t buy it