CEO Elon Musk appears to be celebrating a normal weekend on social media platform X after Tesla shareholders approved a new compensation package worth $1 trillion.
In an early Saturday morning post with an admittedly coincidental timestamp of 4:20 a.m. ET, Musk posted a video generated by his company xAI’s new photo and video tool, Grok Imagine.
As Musk explained, the video was generated by a prompt from Musk: “She smiles and says, ‘I’ll always love you.'” And indeed, the video shows a vivid woman saying those words in an apparently synthetic voice on a rainy street.
24 minutes later, Musk posted a video made by Grok of actress Sydney Sweeney saying, “You’re so disgusting,” in a voice that clearly doesn’t sound like Sydney Sweeney.
While it’s increasingly common to see people freaking out about AI-generated women or forming romantic relationships with chatbots, many X users were particularly taken by the “always love you” video, with one user calling it “the most divorced post ever” and another calling it “the saddest post in the history of this website.”
Notably, none of these were the most scathing criticisms of Musk posted on X this weekend. Instead, the award will go to 87-year-old award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates.
In response to an impressively labyrinthine series of posts in which one user approvingly cited Musk’s firing at a Texas senator who criticized his compensation package, Oates wrote that it was “very strange” that Musk “never posts anything that shows he enjoys or recognizes the things that virtually everyone is grateful for,” whether it’s about friends, relatives, nature, pets, movies, music, or books.
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“In fact, he seems completely uneducated and uncultured,” she wrote. “The poorest people on Twitter may enjoy more beauty and meaning in life than the richest people in the world.”
Musk responded simply by saying, “Oates is a liar who takes pleasure in being mean. He’s not a good person.”
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