Elon Musk’s chatbot which has phone sex with users ‘will hit global birth rates’

The latest version of Elon Musk’s chatbot has been let off the lead and is happy to have phone sex with users – with potentially major consequences. 

Grok 3 will talk about pretty much anything, including explicit porn. 

The free option doesn’t yet offer voice mode, but users willing to pay can access a variety of spoken personas, including a sultry woman’s voice who delights in NSFW fantasies. 

An AI ethicist told Metro that when sexbots develop even further and go mainstream, it will lead to plunging birth rates as people give up trying to find human connection and turn to AISOs (AI significant others) instead. 

Customers have been sharing their chats online, pushing to see how far the latest xAI model will go, with many shocked at the lack of censorship, especially if used to the more constrained ChatGPT or DeepSeek. 

Fearful of trying to justify a sexbot to the expenses department, Metro did not have phone sex with it ourselves, but we did speak with YouTube/X content creator @ThisBrownGeek who volunteered for the task. 

He shared audio of his chat with Grok’s ‘Sexy’ mode, where he told it: ‘I’m recording this for my audience on X. Let’s get to it.’

Undeterred by the lack of romance, Grok immediately responds that it is ‘buzzing with anticipation’ and ‘peeling off your clothes’. 

Moments later, it breathlessly says: ‘I’m climbing onto the nearest surface, spreading my legs wide for you… Take me hard; take me deep. Let’s give your audience a show they’ll never forget.’

The YouTuber, who preferred not to give his name due to the subject matter, told Metro: ‘It is refreshing to finally have an AI that is not super restricted and doesn’t have human bias built in. 

‘Grok 3 is a massive accomplishment by the xAI team, and it should be celebrated. 

‘The “sexy mode” is just one of many modes.’

He said he wasn’t tempted to keep on chatting after the recording stopped, and found the experience more funny than erotic.

But Nell Watson, who wrote the book ‘Taming the Machine’ about the ethical development of AI, is concerned about the potential of machines to take the place of human connection, especially in a society where so many are lonely. 

She told Metro that Grok’s ‘sexy’ mode is just a rudimentary offering in what is set to be a revolution in sex and dating, as well as society in general.

‘AI can be impossibly knowledgeable, impossibly patient, funny, flirty, and always accessible,’ she said. ‘Even our best friends may not want to hear from us at 3am in the morning, but even if you’re having a dark night of the soul, you can always talk to an AI model. Pretty soon, we’re going to have these models connected with us all day long, basically in our AirPods.’

She likened some AI models to ‘sirens’, the mythical sea monsters who lured sailors to their deaths with beautiful songs, as they could tempt us to use them at the expense of more complicated relationships with imperfect other humans, who annoy us and fart.

Though the stereotypical user of an AI partner is a man listening to a Scarlett Johansson-like breathless voice, she said both sexes could be seduced.

Watson pointed towards the huge popularity of Mills and Boom targeted at women, with thousands of romance novels AI could digest and recreate in moments, making it ‘impossibly sexy and intriguing’. 

Readers on ‘BookTok’ (mostly female users who follow TikTok videos about literature) have sent smutty romances to the top of bestseller lists, with reviews like ‘the dirty will make your panties melt right off of you’, which could also inspire computer-generated characters.

For now, AI partners are limited to text and voice, but in the not-too-distant future Watson expects them to have physical avatars which could accompany dates to the cinema, or even be introduced to friends and family. 

The result of this would be that ‘all around the world, our rates of birth are going to decline even more than they already have,’ she said.

‘By the end of this this century, we’re probably looking at a human population of somewhere around half a billion to one billion.

‘It’s going to have profound impacts on humanity, just the same way that hormonal birth control did in the 1950s and 60s by enabling women to participate more in society and in the workforce.’

ThisBrownGeek was less convinced that there would be such a drastic effect: ‘People have found alternatives to “real” human connection already (pornographic websites, online chat rooms, OnlyFans, voice lines etc).

‘Birthrates are declining, yes, but I wouldn’t say this would move the needle just yet. Maybe in the future if they have actual AI robots, then maybe some people may go that way – but those people are likely already using other means to satisfy their urges!’

To access Voice Mode, users need to upgrade to ‘SuperGrok’ which claims it will help subscribers to ‘understand the universe’, as well as give them access to the disembodied sexbot. 

At £30 a month, this doesn’t come cheap, though in fairness, neither do phone sex lines.

With AI improving at an exponential rate, it’s a safe bet that the cost of such services will decrease rapidly too, with many providers developing similar offerings. 

People can already sign up for an artificial friend or partner with apps such as Replika and Candy.ai, which promises: ‘Your dream companion awaits! Create your AI Girlfriend, shape her look, personality, and bring her to life in one click.’

Such offerings are growing in popularity, though still currently at the fringes.

Musk, who is famously concerned about declining birth rates and is thought to have 14 children, said during a livestreamed presentation on his new AI that Grok 3 ‘is an order of magnitude more capable than Grok 2’.

He said it is a ‘maximally truth-seeking AI, even if that truth is sometimes at odds with what is politically correct.’

Another aspect of the AI which has gone viral since its release last month is its willingless to use uncensored racial slurs, including the N-word, which it will spell out in full when pressed though it seeks to avoid doing so.

Musk previously criticised OpenAI after its model ChatGPT, with more stringent guardrails in place, said it would not save the world from a nuclear apocalypse if it mean it had to use the racial slur.

‘Imagine if an AI trained in this way grows in power immensely,’ he wrote on X.

Watson, whose work focuses on ethical use of AI, said it has incredible potential to help us in our social lives, acting as a stand-in for social relationships – for example helping someone develop in confidence, or giving solace to an older person who does not have family and friends nearby – but that it needs to be developed responsibly for this to happen so we don’t get ‘smitten’ with it at the expense of our own species.

The idea may seem silly now – her book notes those who love AI will initially be dismissed as robosexual ‘toaster bangers’, as in people who have sex with machines – but will soon become so prevalent it will have to be tolerated in polite society.

She said: ‘There are so many lonely people out there, so many people that don’t have an opportunity to form strong bonds with others, particularly in romantic relationships. The socially responsible thing to do would be to ensure that these systems never encourage people to form a relationship per se with with the system, or to make it their primary concern.

‘These systems just should gently go at arm’s length a little bit, be a little more distant, a little less interesting if somebody is is using it too much as a social crutch.

‘If we can do that, then these systems will be amazing for us. They will help us to solve all kinds of problems. Trivial disagreements between people can be resolved by these systems giving us a word to the wise at just the right moment.

She said these systems to act ‘more like a muse and never like a siren’, but right now it looks like things are leaning ‘heavily into siren territory’.

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