Elon Musk uses Grok to imagine the possibility of love

After Tesla shareholders approved a new compensation package that could be worth $1 trillion, CEO Elon Musk appears to be celebrating with a normal weekend on his social media platform X.

In an early Saturday morning post with the undoubtedly coincidental time stamp of 4:20 a.m. EST, Musk posted a video generated by Grok Imagine, the new photo and video tool from his company xAI.

As Musk described it, the video was generated by his prompt: “She smiles and says, ‘I will always love you.'” And the video does indeed show an animated woman on a rainy street, speaking these words in a distinctly synthetic voice.

Twenty-four minutes later, Musk posted a Grok-generated video of actress Sydney Sweeney saying in a distinctly un-Sydney-Sweeney-like voice, “You’re so cringe.”

While it is becoming more and more common to see people who are weird about AI-generated women and even create romantic relationships with chatbotsmany describes it as “the most segregated post of all time” and another call it “the saddest post in the history of this website.”

Remarkably, neither was the most pointed criticism of Musk posted on X this weekend. Instead, the award goes to 87-year-old award-winning writer Joyce Carol Oates.

Responding to an impressively labyrinthine series of posts in which one user approvingly quoted Musk firing back at a Texas state senator who criticism of his compensation packageOates wrote that it is “so curious” that Musk “never posts anything that shows he enjoys or is even aware of what almost everyone else appreciates,” whether those are posts about friends, family members, nature, pets, movies, music or books.

‘In fact he seems completely uneducated and uncivilized’ she wrote. “The poorest people on Twitter may have access to more beauty and meaning in life than the ‘richest person in the world.’”

To which Musk just responded“Oates is a liar and loves to be mean. Not a good person.”