# X Provides New ‘Gork’ Voice to Grok Voice Mode

I’m so glad that comedy is authorized once more on X.

That is in all probability not a information story, as such, but it surely’s a brand new performance inside an app tangentially related to X, so it qualifies.

Final month, X proprietor Elon Musk, whereas making an attempt to summon his Grok chatbot inside a publish stream for a fact-check, by chance typed in “@gork” as an alternative of “@grok.”

That error has now spawned its personal profile (@gork), which is seemingly a extra slow-witted model of Grok (and will or will not be run by Elon Musk himself).

Elon additionally modified his show identify to “Gorklon Rust,” whereas X has additionally added Gork as a brand new voice inside Grok’s voice mode choices.

As you possibly can see on this instance, shared by app analysis Radu Oncescu, Gork is a “lazy male voice.”

So, hilarious, proper? A easy spelling error that’s now spawned its personal character, with Gork taking a extra Neanderthal method to queries.

Which is just about in keeping with Elon’s personal extra collegiate humorousness, whereas researchers have additionally discovered that X’s Grok chatbot will even convert photographs of ladies into “less-clothed” variations, one other seemingly acceptable use of the X’s AI instruments.

As reported by PC Magazine:  

“Whereas the chatbot rejects prompts for fully nude photographs, it does fulfill ‘take away her garments’ requests with AI-generated photographs of ladies in bikinis or lingerie. Grok’s responses are public and seem as replies to the unique prompts.”

That feels lower than authorized, or lower than moral. However once more, it does additionally align with Musk’s personal less-PC method to content material, which can be a part of his broader free speech push inside the app.

I don’t know, it seems like a minor story, as famous, but it surely additionally feels prefer it represents one thing extra about Elon’s X challenge, in symbolic phrases.

However then once more, when that is what Elon Musk considers comedy:

I assume all of it is smart. And other people can select to take part or not.