Musk's Grok-generated AI Odyssey panned by Guardian as "dull as a laptop screensaver"
nordicinst · x · 2026-10-29
After attacking Christopher Nolan's Odyssey casting without seeing it and vowing to make a better version with Grok AI, Elon Musk released the first seven-minute AI-generated "episode" made with Grok Imagine, covering a prologue absent from Nolan's film (Odysseus feigning madness, baby Telemachus placed before a plough). The Guardian's review is scathing: Grok's Homer is "as meaningless as a laptop screensaver" — the dullest possible riposte to Nolan's epic.
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