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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    I legitimately think he got high on his own supply with X. People and bots feeding his narcissism, and right wing misinformation and disinformation galore created who he is today.

    And now he’s huffing his own AI sex bot. It all tracks.

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        You can’t blame the drug for his attitudes. I personally don’t enjoy k but I’ve got mates who’ve done it for many years and none of them are weird potato-faced fascists.

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          I’m not blaming a substance, but I’m pretty sure it does play a role in his behavior.

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    Good. The worthless fuck shouldn’t be allowed to spawn any more children. Defective genes and all…

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      Well at least Vivian Wilson turned out well. She came out as trans - in defiance to her father who is the richest guy on the planet and very anti-trans. Kudos to her. 🫶

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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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    It’s the only one he can force to interact with him. Even the bribes aren’t enough to keep any of the previous ones around.

    Doesn’t help that he’s a deadbeat dad despite all his money.

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    No one deserves a salary of 1,000 billion dollars. But this guy deserves it even less than anyone else.

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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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          HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I’VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR ELON MUSK AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.

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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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        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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            If you borrow $100 from me, money you have to pay back in 6 weeks at 2% interest (so $102) have you “made money”?

            No. Indeed if you haven’t used that $100 to make more money than $102 in six weeks, you’ve lost money. If you just keep the money, you’re down $2. If you’ve spent any of it and it hasn’t had any kind of investment return, you’ve lost $2 plus whatever you’ve spent.

            This is just very elementary … not even accounting. This is elementary book-keeping.

            So Kaptain Ketamine has very little cash of his own. Everything he “owns” is leveraged to the hilt and when the value of the asset used to secure the loan drops below a specified point (that point defined in the loan contracts, but typically 2-4 times the value of the loan taken), the bank makes a margin call. They want repayment. NOW. And of course to repay it he has to sell stock. Which lowers the value of the stock. Which leads to more margin calls and more margin calls and more margin calls as he has to continue liquidation of his security until, basically, his stock tanks. And he’s still on the hook for remaining loans.

            I’ve seen convincing estimates that say if Tesla stock falls to about $150-175 the margin calls start and his banks’ company tanks. His “personal wealth” is very much a fiction of paper and is subject to incredible and stunning collapse, something he was in danger of earlier in 2025 when his stock took that long slide before idiots propped it back up.

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              He is the most leveraged person in the world. It’s all a house of cards and it could invert within weeks.

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              I yet have to see a billionaire goung bankrupt.

              Why do you try to protect people like that from public outcry? He bathes in blood money, and if one day it ends or he has to “pay back loans” or whatever, who cares?

              Your post sounds like you explaining his boots has an amazing flavour.

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                Here you go.

                27 famous figures who went bankrupt https://share.google/n61bsvOqXfg8MPBi0

                I understand you are ignorant of the way finance works at this scale, but there is a long list of Billionaires who went to bankrupt because of over leveraging and fraud.

                Madoff, Holmes, …and they all left a wake of bankrupt investors.

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                  So one in prison, the rest are probably living “only” millionaire lifestyles. Trump went bankrupt lots of times, but he bever really was bankrupt.

                  Also what a loser ragebait “I understand you are ignorant”, stop smelling your own farts.

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                Your post sounds like you explaining his boots has an amazing flavour.

                And your post sounds like all the IQ in your family went to your siblings. Now that we have exchanged the traditional personal insults, let’s get back to the actual topic at hand.

                Why do you try to protect people like that from public outcry?

                I’m not “protecting” him from anything. I’m explaining how money works at his levels; how he can seemingly lots of cash while actually having lots of debt. As long as his stock rises he can keep up with the leveraging and the banks don’t care. But, get this, by the very definition of what a “loan” is, it is not his money.

                If you don’t believe me, look up what “loan” means in any number of a myriad of online dictionaries.

                He bathes in blood money, and if one day it ends or he has to “pay back loans” or whatever, who cares?

                Compassionate Fucking Buddha, can you not even begin to figure out why this information is useful? If it’s “his money” (FSVO “his”) it’s far harder to take him down than if it’s someone else’s money that has him leveraged up the wazoo. If all those billions were “his” he would be damned near unassailable. Since, however, they’re all debt he’s easier to attack and destroy!

                THAT is why getting it right is important! This is not boot-licking, this is “how you fight the motherfucker”. Find a way to tank Tesla stock again and you’ve NAILED him.

                I yet have to see a billionaire goung bankrupt.

                Off the top of my head: Bernie Madoff, Eike Batista, Björgólfur Gudmundsson, Adolf Merckle, and Bill Hwang.

                Maybe you’d see them if you opened your fucking eyes.

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                  Fair enough.

                  Thanks for the 4 billionaires that eventually went down the drain, when I guess a hundred new ones were created.

                  In the same vein, even if “elon goes down” the core problem still exists. And I’ll eat my hat if he finishes broke under a bridge lol.

                  IMO you are attacking something that is just the tesult of the problem, not the problem itself.

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          And we need to remember that he gets paid in stock for the pure reason to pay as little taxes as possible

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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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    You know the one thing that I take unexpected issue to and you might find this strange, is the fact that her design is so… Bland?

    She looks so… Aryan???!!?! Like, could he have at least tried to spice it up a little? Go look at vtuber designs they have a certain aesthetic about them but it seems like whoever was crafting the design was at least trying? But whatever I guess people don’t even have to pretend they aren’t fascists anymore so

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      This is one of those moments in life.

      Where I have a question and a choice to make.

      What the heck is vtube, and do I want to go find out.

      I think maybe thus time I just don’t. Context of this post makes me think maybe I shouldn’t this time

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        They’re fine, no worse than anyone else who streams games on Twitch or whatever.

        The thing is that “Grok” or whatever he’s calling it is just the blandest design ever.

        Characters like this (typically) have some amount of flair or recognizable style.

        Meanwhile, Musk’s virtual sex doll is basically just “Caricature of an Aryan woman” because he’s an idiot and couldn’t be more transparent and is appealing to the worst people in society.

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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.