Social media posts claim that one of Elon Musk’s companies will launch a “robot wife” product next September. However, this is fake news.
A series of images purportedly showing billionaire Elon Musk kissing feminine-looking robots have been rapidly spreading across social media.
Images of Elon Musk kissing robots have received hundreds of thousands of likes on social media. (Photo: Daniel Marven).
These images are often shared with captions like “Elon Musk announces his future wife. She is the first robot designed based on AI, with the personality traits of the woman Elon Musk has always dreamed of.”
A post from the Twitter user “Baboon Forest Entertainment” even claimed that Musk’s company is in the development stage of “robot wife” – a product set to launch in September.
Many similar posts about this new product have garnered thousands of likes and hundreds of comments on social media.
These images are also circulating with rumors about the upcoming “robot wife” product. (Photo: Daniel Marven).
In reality, these very realistic images were created by AI and were first posted by Daniel Marven, a Twitter user with nearly 1 million followers.
In his post, Marven clarified that the purpose of sharing these images was “to highlight the potential dangers of AI in the near future”, especially after Elon Musk released a video about the first multifunctional robot from Tesla, “Optimus.”
These robots bear a striking resemblance to real humans, exhibiting fluid movement, carrying items, watering plants, and more. Elon Musk refers to this product as a “companion.”
AI-generated fake images of celebrities have been rapidly circulating on social media in recent months. Notably, an image of Pope Francis wearing a white Balenciaga puffer jacket received hundreds of thousands of likes on Twitter.
Some people thought the image was real, while others quickly identified it as a fake, produced by the AI Midjourney.
AI expert Henry Ajder has described ways in which users can identify images created by AI, especially those from Midjourney. He noted that human skin in these images appears excessively shiny, as if made of plastic or rubber, making them look unrealistic.
