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Vice President JD Vance says he’s not a big AI user, but it has helped him with one recent project: illustrating a children’s book.
Vance said that he used Grok, the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk’s xAI, to generate images for a customized version of the “Who Would Win?” children’s book that he wrote with his kids.
“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 former aide to Musk.
“Who Would Win?” is a series of short illustrated children’s books depicting fights between different predatory animals, such as bears, dinosaurs, and snakes.
“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.”
Vance has three young kids with his wife Usha: Ewan, Vivek, and Mirabel.
The vice president isn’t the only prominent figure who’s used AI to generate illustrations for children. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last year that he and his young daughter, August, used Meta AI to create illustrations for a book she wrote called “The Mermaid Crystal.”
Some politicians have been using ChatGPT and Grok for speechwriting and research. Others have avoided it, telling BI that they’re worried about falling for AI hallucinations or losing their own cognitive skills.
Vance, asked by Miller what he’d most recently searched with AI, indicated that he didn’t use it much.
“I’m actually not a big AI guy,” Vance said.
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