After Tesla shareholders approved a new compensation package potentially worth $1 trillion, CEO Elon Musk seems to be enjoying a typical weekend on his social media platform X.
Early Saturday morning, around 4:20 AM EST, Musk shared a video created by Grok Imagine, the new photo and video tool from his company xAI.
Describing the video, Musk explained it was produced based on his prompt: “She smiles and says, ‘I will always love you.’” The clip features an animated woman on a rainy street, saying those exact words in an obviously synthetic voice.
Just twenty-four minutes later, he posted another Grok-generated video featuring actress Sydney Sweeney, whose voice—distinctly unlike her own—declares, “You are so cringe.”
As conversations about AI-generated content and even romantic attachments to chatbots grow, many users on X reacted to the “always love you” video, with one commenting it was “the most divorced post of all time” and another calling it “the saddest post in the history of this website.”
Interestingly, the harshest critique of Musk this weekend did not come from another user, but from 87-year-old, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates. After a convoluted discussion where one user praised Musk’s rebuttal to a Texas state senator who criticized his compensation, Oates pointed out how curious it is that Musk “never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates,” highlighting topics like friends, family, nature, pets, movies, music, or books.
“In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured,” she remarked. “The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’”
Musk’s response was succinct: “Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.”
