📽️ The 7-minute Grodyssey (part 1 of 168)
WIRED: Grok Says Its AI-Generated Version of The Odyssey Is ‘Not Historically Accurate’
“Before this year ends,” Musk wrote on X, “Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer.”
A little more than three months later—long after the discourse moved on—the public finally has a first glimpse of what we might call the Grodyssey, an Odyssey rendered through prompts fed into xAI’s video and image generation model. Rather than a “full-length movie,” it’s a seven-minute “episode” of an apparently ongoing series, depicting how Odysseus, king of Ithaca, resists a call to war against Troy but is ultimately compelled by an oath of loyalty to sail there with his army.
“Odyssey with Grok Imagine,” Musk announced Friday on X when sharing the clip, produced by AI entertainment company Wonder Studios X. ...
Grok’s introductory episode bears many hallmarks of AI slop. The movements of faces don’t match the dialog [WRONG! THEY FUCKING DO!], which is further undercut by stilted and unnatural delivery. Besides Odysseus, none of the principal characters are introduced by name, and the pacing issues are laughable: The Ithacans arrive on the shores of Troy immediately after leaving their homeland, for example. Even the blue checks on X were harsh in their assessment. “Someone actually watched this and still decided to post it?” wrote one user. “Fire that person.”
📽️ FULL 4K VIDEO HERE (your browser will play it; it weighs 947.82 MiB): https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2113702877705187329/vid/avc1/3840x2160/tg3CTvks_x_p95qH.mp4