The truth about Elon Musk's 'robot wife' product

Social media posts claim that one of Elon Musk's companies will launch a "robot wife" in September. However, this is fake news.

A series of images believed to be of billionaire Elon Musk hugging and kissing robots with feminine appearances are spreading at a dizzying speed on social networks.

Images of Elon Musk kissing a robot received hundreds of thousands of likes on social media. (Photo: Daniel Marven).

These images are often posted with captions like 'Elon Musk announces his future wife. She is the first robot designed based on AI, has the personality traits of the woman Elon Musk has always dreamed of'.

A post by Twitter user 'Baboon Forest Entertainment' also claimed that Elon Musk's company is in the development phase of a "robot wife" - a product that will be launched in September.

Many similar posts about this new product have attracted thousands of likes as well as hundreds of comments on social networks.

These images are also spreading rumors about the upcoming "robot wife" product. (Photo: Daniel Marven).

In fact, these very real images were created by an AI tool and were first posted by Daniel Marven , a Twitter user with nearly 1 million followers.

In the post, Marven also clarified that the purpose of sharing these photos was to 'shed light on the dangers of AI in the near future ' , especially after Elon Musk released a video of Tesla's first multi-purpose robot, 'Optimus'.

These robots have a similar body shape to real people, can walk quite smoothly, carry things, water plants. Elon Musk calls this product a 'companion'.

Fake images of celebrities created by AI have been spreading rapidly on social media in recent months, with a photo of Pope Francis wearing a white Balenciaga down jacket gaining hundreds of thousands of likes on Twitter.

Some people thought the photo was real, others quickly discovered it was a fake - a product of AI Midjourney.

Artificial intelligence expert Henry Ajder described ways in which users can identify AI-generated images, particularly Midjourney's. He said the human skin in these images is very shiny, like it's made of plastic or rubber, which doesn't look realistic.