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Facebook Email X<\/p>\n LinkedIn<\/p>\n Reddit<\/p>\n Bluesky<\/p>\n WhatsApp<\/p>\n Copy link<\/p>\n lighning bolt icon Impact Link<\/p>\n Save <\/p>\n Read in app<\/p>\n <\/a> <\/p>\n This story is available exclusively to Business Insider JD Vance says he used Grok to help make a custom version of the “Who Would Win?” children’s book. Vice President JD Vance<\/a> says he’s not a big AI user, but it has helped him with one recent project: illustrating a children’s book.<\/p>\n Vance said that he used Grok<\/a>, the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk’s<\/a> xAI<\/a>, to generate images for a customized version of the “Who Would Win?” children’s book that he wrote with his kids.<\/p>\n “We actually made a ‘big cats’ version where we wrote it ourselves, but I used Grok to make the actual images,” Vance said on a podcast hosted by Katie Miller<\/a>, a former aide to Musk.<\/p>\n “Who Would Win?” is a series of short illustrated children’s books depicting fights between different predatory animals, such as bears, dinosaurs, and snakes.<\/p>\n “Some of them are completely deranged,” Vance added, referring to the images he generated. “It’s like, a jaguar with its fang through the skull of a tiger. And it’s like, ‘This is really gruesome shit.’ But here we are. The kids loved it.”<\/p>\n Vance has three young kids with his wife Usha: Ewan, Vivek, and Mirabel.<\/p>\n The vice president isn’t the only prominent figure who’s used AI to generate illustrations for children. Meta<\/a> CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>\u00a0said last year<\/a>\u00a0that he and his young daughter, August, used Meta AI to create illustrations for a book she wrote called “The Mermaid Crystal.”<\/p>\n Some politicians have been using ChatGPT and Grok<\/a> for speechwriting and research. Others have avoided it, telling BI that they’re worried about falling for AI hallucinations<\/a> or losing their own cognitive skills.<\/p>\n Vance, asked by Miller what he’d most recently searched with AI, indicated that he didn’t use it much.<\/p>\n “I’m actually not a big AI guy,” Vance said.<\/p>\n
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\n “I used Grok to make the actual images,” Vance said.
\n The VP says that he’s usually “not an AI guy” but that his kids “loved” the images.<\/p>\n