After Tesla shareholders authorised a brand new compensation bundle that could possibly be price $1 trillion, CEO Elon Musk seems to be celebrating with a standard weekend on his social media platform X.
In an early Saturday morning publish with the absolutely coincidental timestamp of 4:20am EST, Musk posted a video generated by Grok Think about, the brand new picture and video device from his firm xAI.
As Musk described it, the video was generated by his immediate, “She smiles and says, ‘I’ll all the time love you.’”And the video does, actually, present an animated lady on a wet avenue, saying these phrases in an clearly artificial voice.
Twenty-four minutes later, Musk posted a Grok-generated video of the actress Sydney Sweeney saying, in a distinctly un-Sydney-Sweeney-like voice, “You might be so cringe.”
Whereas it’s more and more frequent to see people being weird about AI-generated ladies and even forming romantic relationships with chatbots, many X customers pounced on the “all the time love you” video specifically, with one describing it as “probably the most divorced publish of all time” and one other calling it “the saddest publish within the historical past of this web site.”
Remarkably, neither of these was probably the most stinging critique of Musk posted to X this weekend. As an alternative, the prize goes to 87-year-old, award-winning writer Joyce Carol Oates.
Responding to an impressively labyrinthine collection of posts through which one person approvingly quoted Musk firing again at a Texas state senator who criticized his compensation package, Oates wrote that it’s “so curious” that Musk “by no means posts something that signifies that he enjoys or is even conscious of what just about everybody appreciates,” whether or not that’s posting about mates, relations, nature, pets, films, music, or books.
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“The truth is he appears completely uneducated, uncultured,” she wrote. “The poorest individuals on Twitter could have entry to extra magnificence & which means in life than the ‘most rich individual on the earth.’”
To which Musk simply responded, “Oates is a liar and delights in being imply. Not a very good human.”
