{"id":140332,"date":"2025-08-12T18:28:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140332\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T18:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:28:19","slug":"jd-vance-says-he-used-grok-to-help-make-a-customized-childrens-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140332\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance says he used Grok to help make a customized children&#8217;s book"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">JD Vance says he used Grok to help make a custom version of the &#8220;Who Would Win?&#8221; children&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I used Grok to make the actual images,&#8221; Vance said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The VP says that he&#8217;s usually &#8220;not an AI guy&#8221; but that his kids &#8220;loved&#8221; the images.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vice President <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-vice-president-jd-vance-career-facts-2024-7?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoo.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:JD Vance;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">JD Vance<\/a> says he&#8217;s not a big AI user, but it has helped him with one recent project: illustrating a children&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vance said that he used <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-grok-suspended-x-2025-8?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoo.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Grok;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Grok<\/a>, the AI chatbot created by <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoo.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Elon Musk&#039;s;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Elon Musk&#8217;s<\/a> <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/xai-poached-dozen-meta-employees-ai-talent-war-2025-8?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoo.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:xAI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">xAI<\/a>, to generate images for a customized version of the &#8220;Who Would Win?&#8221; children&#8217;s book that he wrote with his kids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We actually made a &#8216;big cats&#8217; version where we wrote it ourselves, but I used Grok to make the actual images,&#8221; Vance said on a <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/katie-miller-doge-elon-musk-advisor-launch-podcast-2025-8?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoo.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:podcast hosted by Katie Miller;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">podcast hosted by Katie Miller<\/a>, a former aide to Musk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Who Would Win?&#8221; is a series of short illustrated children&#8217;s books depicting fights between different predatory animals, such as bears, dinosaurs, and snakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Some of them are completely deranged,&#8221; Vance added, referring to the images he generated. &#8220;It&#8217;s like, a jaguar with its fang through the skull of a tiger. And it&#8217;s like, &#8216;This is really gruesome shit.&#8217; But here we are. The kids loved it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vance has three young kids with his wife Usha: Ewan, Vivek, and Mirabel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The vice president isn&#8217;t the only prominent figure who&#8217;s used AI to generate illustrations for children. <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/meta?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoo.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Meta;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Meta<\/a> CEO <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mark-zuckerberg?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoo.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mark Zuckerberg;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DAjKMZ0ykOx\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said last year;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said last year<\/a>\u00a0that he and his young daughter, August, used Meta AI to create illustrations for a book she wrote called &#8220;The Mermaid Crystal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some politicians have been <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/members-congress-politicians-using-chatgpt-grok-ai-2025-6?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoo.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:using ChatGPT and Grok;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">using ChatGPT and Grok<\/a> for speechwriting and research. Others have avoided it, telling BI that they&#8217;re worried about <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/lawmakers-who-dont-use-ai-chatgpt-grok-2025-6?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoo.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:falling for AI hallucinations;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">falling for AI hallucinations<\/a> or losing their own cognitive skills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vance, asked by Miller what he&#8217;d most recently searched with AI, indicated that he didn&#8217;t use it much.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m actually not a big AI guy,&#8221; Vance said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jd-vance-used-grok-childrens-book-2025-8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Business Insider;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JD Vance says he used Grok to help make a custom version of the &#8220;Who Would Win?&#8221; children&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,34949,59917,67,132,68,83837],"class_list":{"0":"post-140332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-grok","11":"tag-katie-miller","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-vance"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115017213881135790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}