Elon Musk’s Grok AI Imagines the Future of Love
▼ Summary
– Tesla shareholders approved a new compensation package for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth $1 trillion.
– Musk celebrated by posting AI-generated videos on his social media platform X, including one of a synthetic woman saying “I will always love you.”
– Many X users criticized the posts, with some calling them “the saddest post” or “the most divorced post of all time.”
– Author Joyce Carol Oates criticized Musk for never posting about common human interests like friends, nature, or culture, calling him “uneducated” and “uncultured.”
– Musk responded to Oates by calling her “a liar” and “not a good human.”
Following a landmark shareholder vote approving a compensation package potentially valued at one trillion dollars, Elon Musk turned to his social media platform X for a weekend of personal posts. In the early hours of Saturday morning, coincidentally at 4:20am EST, the CEO shared a video created by Grok Imagine, the new visual media tool from his artificial intelligence venture, xAI.
Musk explained the video was the result of his prompt: “She smiles and says, ‘I will always love you.’” The resulting clip features an animated woman standing on a rain-slicked street, mouthing those exact words in a clearly artificial, synthesized voice.
A short time later, just twenty-four minutes after his first post, Musk published another AI-generated video. This one depicted actress Sydney Sweeney delivering the line, “You are so cringe,” in a voice that sounded nothing like her own.
While public fascination with AI-generated personas and even romantic chatbot relationships is growing, many users on X reacted strongly to the “always love you” video. One observer labeled it “the most divorced post of all time,” while another declared it “the saddest post in the history of this website.”
Surprisingly, these sharp comments were not the most pointed criticism Musk faced over the weekend. That distinction belongs to the acclaimed 87-year-old author, Joyce Carol Oates.
Responding to a complex thread where a user defended Musk’s retort to a Texas state senator criticizing his pay package, Oates offered a broader observation. She noted it was “so curious” that Musk “never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates.” She listed common human joys like friends, family, nature, pets, films, music, and literature as apparent blind spots in his public persona.
She expanded on this, writing, “In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured,” and suggested that “The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’”
Musk’s reply to the celebrated author was characteristically blunt and direct. He stated simply, “Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.”
(Source: TechCrunch)
