{"id":15432,"date":"2025-07-22T12:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/15432\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:31:13","slug":"elon-musk-announced-his-new-kid-friendly-ai-bot-baby-grok-and-the-internet-gave-a-resounding-hell-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/15432\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk announced his new &#8216;kid-friendly&#8217; AI bot Baby Grok, and the internet gave a resounding &#8220;Hell, no!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Elon Musk launched an AI bot to interact with the people of Twitter, he thought he was birthing a new era of truth and transparency in social media. Instead, he unleashed a hateful monster on the world. So how did he respond?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We\u2019re going to make Baby Grok <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xai?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@xAI<\/a>, an app dedicated to kid-friendly content<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1946763642231500856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh God no. The idea of entrusting children with anything Musk cooks up in his lab is terrifying and the internet didn\u2019t take long to deliver its verdict.<\/p>\n<p>1.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No thanks, enough propaganda exists already.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tony Montana (@9mmScorpion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/9mmScorpion\/status\/1946765626934014390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">after a week of using baby Grok <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HSxrxjSUM6\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/HSxrxjSUM6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x5jNIwOVYU\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/x5jNIwOVYU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u1431 \u144e \u1450 \u148b \u156e \u148d (@Andr3jH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Andr3jH\/status\/1946902321075495413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sounds like a horrible idea that can only go disastrously wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hazel Appleyard (@HazelAppleyard_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HazelAppleyard_\/status\/1946839855314481351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You seriously need to stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Calamity Jen (@realjenx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realjenx\/status\/1946765317927006719?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If you are a parent letting your children use X, you are a bad parent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jessica Green (@JessicaTheGreen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JessicaTheGreen\/status\/1946783962442899639?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>6.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Baby Grok. This is how the world ends. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f4zL0ebRPv\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/f4zL0ebRPv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Noelle Cook (@noellecook_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noellecook_com\/status\/1946774110933319797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>7.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You can&#8217;t even control the one you got now. And you wanna make one for kids?!absolutely not!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dawn \u2764\ufe0f\u200d (@NerdyMom47) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NerdyMom47\/status\/1947245755317485947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">Baby Grok du du du du du du <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JordPzig7H\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JordPzig7H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 This You? (@Thiss_Youu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Thiss_Youu\/status\/1946767129451397263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>9.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WTF moment for tonight:<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Twitter\/ xAI is going to make Baby Grok, &#8216;an app dedicated to kid-friendly content.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And who better to be in charge of delivering content to children than man who probably can&#8217;t even accurately count\/name his own children (and baby mamas.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Janice Hough (@leftcoastbabe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leftcoastbabe\/status\/1946834292874862602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What could possibly go wrong<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shawn_Farash\/status\/1946898987325272388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Focus on this app! There are numerous problems, especially with Spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Babies need human interaction, and parents don\u2019t need new ways to outsource their roles. We do not need kid-friendly AI or other internet content. Please stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nikki M. Johnson, MD, DNBPAS \u2695 (@notaproviderMD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/notaproviderMD\/status\/1946823729012433406?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nah bro, just no. I have kids but they won\u2019t be doing that\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PatriotFlames (@PatriotFlamesJB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatriotFlamesJB\/status\/1946764012001046787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Elon Musk launched an AI bot to interact with the people of Twitter, he thought he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,995,5726,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-15432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-elon-musk","tag-grok","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}