Elon Musk promised an AI epic to rival Christopher Nolan’s film. Viewers got a seven-minute glitch
The first installment of Elon Musk’s AI-generated adaptation of The Odyssey has arrived, drawing swift ridicule for the medium Musk claimed would challenge Hollywood and offering an awkward AI-generated entry into the woke wars.
TL;DR
- Elon Musk released a seven-minute AI-generated adaptation of "The Odyssey," claiming it would challenge Hollywood.
- The AI version was heavily criticized online for its low video quality, plastic character models, jarring scene transitions, and use of modern English dialogue.
- Musk had previously criticized Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" for being too "woke," particularly the casting of Lupita Nyong'o.
- Nolan's film has been a commercial success, grossing $1.79 billion worldwide.
- Musk's "Odyssey" was created with SpaceXAI's Grok Imagine tool, which can generate video up to 1080p and includes an NSFW "spicy mode."
- The project was made in collaboration with AI filmmaker Dev Walker and Wonder Studios, which aims to be the "A24 of AI production."
- Despite criticisms, some users acknowledged the project as a step forward for AI video generation.
- There have been few fully AI-generated feature films, though partly AI-generated projects like "Where the Robots Grow" have emerged.