Elon Musk uses Grok to imagine the possibility of love

After Tesla shareholders approved a caller compensation bundle that could beryllium worthy $1 trillion, CEO Elon Musk appears to beryllium celebrating with a mean play connected his societal media level X.

In an aboriginal Saturday greeting station with the surely coincidental timestamp of 4:20am EST, Musk posted a video generated by Grok Imagine, the new photograph and video instrumentality from his institution xAI. 

As Musk described it, the video was generated by his prompt, “She smiles and says, ‘I volition ever emotion you.’”And the video does, successful fact, amusement an animated pistillate connected a rainy street, saying those words successful an evidently synthetic voice.

Twenty-four minutes later, Musk posted a Grok-generated video of the histrion Sydney Sweeney saying, successful a distinctly un-Sydney-Sweeney-like voice, “You are truthful cringe.”

While it’s progressively communal to spot people being weird astir AI-generated women and adjacent forming romanticist relationships with chatbots, galore X users pounced connected the “always emotion you” video successful particular, with 1 describing it arsenic “the astir divorced station of each time” and different calling it “the saddest station successful the past of this website.”

Remarkably, neither of those was the astir stinging critique of Musk posted to X this weekend. Instead, the prize goes to 87-year-old, award-winning writer Joyce Carol Oates.

Responding to an impressively labyrinthine bid of posts successful which 1 idiosyncratic approvingly quoted Musk firing backmost astatine a Texas authorities legislator who criticized his compensation package, Oates wrote that it’s “so curious” that Musk “never posts thing that indicates that helium enjoys oregon is adjacent alert of what virtually everyone appreciates,” whether that’s posting astir friends, relatives, nature, pets, movies, music, oregon books.

“In information helium seems wholly uneducated, uncultured,” she wrote. “The poorest persons connected Twitter whitethorn person entree to much quality & meaning successful beingness than the ‘most affluent idiosyncratic successful the world.’”

To which Musk simply responded, “Oates is simply a liar and delights successful being mean. Not a bully human.”