{"id":948694,"date":"2026-10-27T23:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T23:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948694\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T23:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T23:30:10","slug":"elon-musks-own-chatbot-pans-his-slop-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948694\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s own chatbot pans his slop Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk promised a \u201chistorically accurate\u201d Odyssey<\/a> after incessant complaints about Christopher Nolan\u2019s summer blockbuster, but it turned out to be much ado about nothing. Grok flat-out rejected episode one of Musk\u2019s promised feature-length movie as true to real-life events, according to Wired<\/a>, which asked the chatbot to assess the accuracy of the seven-minute AI-generated video. \u201cGrok Imagine\u2019s Episode 1 (and the broader promised series) is an adaptation of Homer\u2019s Odyssey, not a historically accurate reconstruction of real events,\u201d the chatbot replied.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Musk was one of the leading voices criticizing Nolan\u2019s Odyssey even before it was released. The billionaire took issue with the casting of non-white actors, particularly Lupita Nyong\u2019o as Helen of Troy, and the involvement of trans actor Elliot Page, among many other things. Musk swore that Grok Imagine would create a full-length movie adaptation \u201cthat is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer.\u201d Instead of releasing the AI-made film all at once, Grok Imagine posted the first episode on Friday<\/a>, made with Wonder Studios.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you didn\u2019t watch the episode, you\u2019re not missing out. The video comes across more like a trailer than the start of an epic movie. The pacing is hurried, with scenes changing quickly and never lingering on any moment. It builds no momentum and shows no human touch or understanding of what makes a movie feel like a movie. Pacing issues aside, Grok told Wired that the video simply \u201cdoes not meet a strict historical standard.\u201d Visually, Grok said the episode doesn\u2019t match what the landscape would have realistically looked like at the time. \u201cThe Odyssey itself is not a historical document, and the production makes no serious attempt at archaeological or linguistic fidelity beyond a general \u2018ancient Greek epic\u2019 aesthetic,\u201d the AI assistant said. Grok also said what we already knew\u2014that an adaptation of an epic Greek poem featuring a cyclops, sirens, and sea monsters couldn\u2019t possibly be historically accurate because those creatures aren\u2019t real. Instead, the poem is based on \u201cmyth\u201d and \u201cinvention,\u201d and \u201cmany details are anachronistic or literary,\u201d the AI assistant said. So, the next time Musk uses generative AI to prove a point, he might want to fact-check his work before his own chatbot schools him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk promised a \u201chistorically accurate\u201d Odyssey after incessant complaints about Christopher Nolan\u2019s summer blockbuster, but it turned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-948694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}