Elon Musk appears to be going through it.
On Saturday, the billionaire became the subject of widespread mockery after boasting about how the video generating model from his AI company xAI, Grok Imagine, can fabricate a photorealistic clip of a woman looking into the camera and declaring her undying love for you — which is either an indication that Musk thinks his fans are a bunch of lonely sad sacks, or that he himself is one, or both.
“Grok Imagine prompt: She smiles and says, ‘I will always love you,'” Musk wrote in a post with the video on his website X, formerly Twitter, published at the very well-adjusted hour of 4:20 AM (Musk is a late riser, so this was likely posted at the end of a long day, not the beginning of it.)
The resulting video, true to Musk’s prompt, does show a clearly AI-generated woman saying “I will always love you” in a voice that’s obviously of AI origin — which, all subtext aside, is an unconvincing demonstration of Grok’s supposedly incredible capabilities.
It gets even sadder. Replying to his own post, Musk also revealed that the AI-generated woman was actually one that he saw in another Grok-created image by a fan. In other words, Musk didn’t just ask for a generic video of a fake woman saying he loves him — he wanted someone else’s specific fake AI woman to do it.
The ensuing mockery was vicious.
“I guess it kinda makes sense that the first trillionaire is the biggest loser of all time,” wrote author John Ganz. (Last week, shareholders at Musk’s company Tesla approved an outrageous pay package for Musk worth up to $1 trillion.)
Netizens elsewhere on the site dubbed Musk’s video “the saddest post in the history of this website” and also the “most divorced post of all time.”
Grok Imagine prompt:
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