"In an early Saturday morning post with the surely coincidental timestamp of 4:20am 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, in fact, show an animated woman on a rainy street, saying those words in an obviously synthetic 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 are so cringe." While it's increasingly common to see people being weird about AI-generated women and even forming romantic relationships with chatbots, many X users pounced on the "always love you" video in particular, with one describing it as "the most divorced post of all time" and another calling it "the saddest post in the history of this website.""
"Responding to an impressively labyrinthine series of posts in which one user approvingly quoted Musk firing back at a Texas state senator who criticized his compensation package, Oates wrote that it's "so curious" that Musk "never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates," whether that's posting about friends, relatives, nature, pets, movies, music, or books. "In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured," she wrote. "The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the 'most wealthy person in the world.'""
Elon Musk posted two Grok Imagine-generated videos on X shortly after Tesla shareholders approved a compensation package that could be worth $1 trillion. One video shows an animated woman on a rainy street saying "I will always love you" in a synthetic voice. Another features actress Sydney Sweeney saying "You are so cringe" in an uncharacteristic voice. X users mocked the sentimental video and compared it to divorce and sadness. Author Joyce Carol Oates criticized Musk for lacking visible appreciation of everyday beauty and cultural life, calling him "totally uneducated, uncultured."
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