After Tesla shareholders approved a new compensation package that could be worth $1 trillion, CEO Elon Musk appears to be celebrating with a regular weekend on social media platform X.
In an early Saturday morning post with the surely coincidental timestamp of 4:20 am. EST, Musk posted a video created by Grok Imagine, the new photo and video tool from his company xAI.
As Musk described it, the video was created at his prompting, “He smiles and says, ‘I will always love you.’ And the video, in fact, shows a cartoon woman on a rainy street, saying those words in an obviously synthesized voice.
Twenty-four minutes later, Musk posted a video created by Grok of actress Sydney Sweeney saying, in a decidedly contrarian Sydney-Sweeney-like voice, “You’re so creepy.”
While it is increasingly common to see people are curious about women being created by artificial intelligence and even creating romantic relationships with chatbotsmany X users began to select the “always love you” video in particular, with a describing it as “the most divisive post of all time” and another calling it “The saddest post in the history of this site.”
Notably, none of that was the most scathing criticism of Musk posted on X this weekend. Instead, the award goes to 87-year-old award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates.
Responding to an impressively rambling series of posts in which one user approvingly mentioned Musk shooting a Texas state senator who criticized his compensation packageOates wrote that it’s “so weird” that Musk “never posts anything that shows he likes or knows what almost everyone values,” whether it’s posting about friends, family, nature, pets, movies, music, or books.
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“In fact he seems completely uneducated, uncultured” she wrote. “The poorest people on Twitter may have access to more beauty and meaning in life than the ‘richest man in the world.’
In which Musk he simply replied“Oates is a liar and delights in being evil. Not a good man.”
