Musk Releases Grok-Generated "Odyssey" Episode to Universal Indifference

After condemning Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey online without having seen it, Elon Musk promised he'd make a better, more "authentic" version using Grok AI. He has now delivered the first seven-minute episode. The Guardian's reviewer describes it as "as meaningless as a laptop screensaver," with ships lined up on the sea "like a row of high-def space invaders" and every character speaking in a "digital-robot" voice with "over-emphatic, declamatory tone."

The film covers a prologue not in Nolan's version, which the reviewer notes is fitting: Musk appears to have "no passion to tell us this story, only to win an argument that he long since lost." Nolan's Odyssey, meanwhile, had already piled up plaudits and box office receipts by the time Musk's episode dropped to "a world that has long since forgotten about this claim and didn't care in the first place."