Elon Musk Uses Grok To Imagine The Possibility Of Love

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

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

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

Twenty-four minutes later, Musk posted a Grok-generated video of nan character 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 moreover forming romanticist relationships pinch chatbots, galore X users pounced connected nan “always emotion you” video successful particular, pinch 1 describing it arsenic “the astir divided station of each time” and different calling it “the saddest station successful nan history of this website.”

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

Responding to an impressively labyrinthine bid of posts successful which 1 personification 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 he enjoys aliases is moreover alert of what virtually everyone appreciates,” whether that’s posting astir friends, relatives, nature, pets, movies, music, aliases books.

“In truth he seems wholly uneducated, uncultured,” she wrote. “The poorest persons connected Twitter whitethorn person entree to much beauty & meaning successful life than nan ‘most able personification successful nan world.’”

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