Overview
- Early Saturday, Musk posted a Grok Imagine clip on X generated from the prompt, “She smiles and says ‘I will always love you,’” featuring a lifelike woman speaking in a synthetic voice.
- Roughly 24 minutes later, he shared a second Grok-generated video depicting Sydney Sweeney saying, “You are so cringe,” in a voice unlike the actress’s.
- X users widely ridiculed the posts, labeling the first clip “the saddest post in the history of this website” and “the most divorced post of all time.”
- Author Joyce Carol Oates criticized Musk’s online persona as culturally out of touch, and Musk replied, calling her a liar who enjoys being mean.
- The posts followed Tesla shareholders’ approval of a compensation package reported as potentially worth $1 trillion, as commentators raised broader concerns about synthetic media and AI relationships.