---
title: "Cursed Site Uses AI to Generate “Waifus”"
description: "Have you ever wanted to buy a body pillow of your very own AI-generated waifu? No? Well, now you can anyway, thanks to a very cursed website."
date: "2019-09-30"
modified: "2019-09-30"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-generate-waifu-body-pillows"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
tags:
  - "ai"
  - "anime"
  - "the digest"
---

# Cursed Site Uses AI to Generate “Waifus”

![Have you ever wanted to buy a body pillow of your very own AI-generated waifu? No? Well, now you can anyway, thanks to a very cursed website.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ai-generate-waifu-body-pillows.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Waifu Labs/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## wAIfu

Before you read another word, Futurism would like to apologize for what you are about to read.

With that out of the way, let's talk about a site called "[Waifu Labs](<https://waifulabs.com/>)," which uses artificial intelligence to generate the anime-style paramours of your dreams.

The website presents users with a grid of 16 anime women — some suggestive, some with animal ears, and many unsettlingly childlike — that [were generated by AI](<https://waifulabs.com/blog/ax>). As the user picks their favorites, the AI hones in their anime babe preferences, ultimately offering them the chance to buy a picture printed onto a person-sized pillow for $90.

## Stepping Back

Let's get you some context before you find yourself innocently googling your way into a dark corner of the internet: the concept of a waifu is based on the Japanese borrowing [of the word "wife"](<https://www.dictionary.com/e/fictional-characters/waifu/>), and used by a [particular type](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20511712>) of anime superfans who declare fictional characters to be their significant others.

Waifu Labs calls its creation the "Waifu Vending Machine." The idea is to replace waifu-drawing artists with AI to better cater to each person's individual interests. Thankfully, *[Synced Review](<https://medium.com/syncedreview/meet-your-ai-generated-dream-anime-girl-5dc149c5eab4>)*[ reports](<https://medium.com/syncedreview/meet-your-ai-generated-dream-anime-girl-5dc149c5eab4>) that the engineers took extra steps to keep the AI from making X-rated images.

## New Family

To add an incestuous twist, at the end of a Waifu Labs session, the user is presented with a "certificate of adoption" for their unholy creation.

Feasibly, they could pair it with that site that turns [selfies into anime portraits](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/app-selfie-anime-characters>) to create their own little family with their new… bride? Child? Child-bride? We give up.

**READ MORE:** [Meet Your AI-Generated Dream Anime Girl](<https://medium.com/syncedreview/meet-your-ai-generated-dream-anime-girl-5dc149c5eab4>) \[*Synced Review*\]

**More on cursed AI projects:** *[This AI Draws Horrifying New Pokémon](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/neural-network-pokemon>)*

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://x.com/danrobitzski>)