{"id":813909,"date":"2026-10-26T00:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T00:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813909\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T00:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T00:02:08","slug":"elon-musks-slop-generator-releases-first-episode-of-his-ai-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813909\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s slop generator releases first episode of his AI Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk\u2019s Grok Imagine released the first episode<\/a> of its promised AI-generated take on The Odyssey, and it\u2019s as uninspired as expected. On Friday, Grok Imagine\u2019s X account posted a seven-minute, AI-generated video interpretation of Homer\u2019s Odyssey, made in collaboration with Wonder Studios. The video came a few months after Musk said that Grok would create a \u201chistorically accurate,\u201d full-length movie depiction<\/a> of Homer\u2019s story before year-end. The first part of the film has now been released. The episode shows a moody Odysseus sharpening his knife (and accidentally drawing his own blood) as his wife Penelope tells him he must go on his expedition. As the men prepare to set sail, Penelope hands Odysseus a small, wooden horse figurine and tells him to bring it home to their son, Telemachus. Odysseus and his men set sail for Troy, determined to be the first army to break the city walls in pursuit of vengeance. Footage of the army fighting the Trojans intercuts with scenes of Telemachus growing up and training in combat. The whole thing comes across less like the start of a cohesive feature film and more like a choppy trailer or sizzle reel, at best.<\/p>\n

Musk has been grumbling about Christopher Nolan\u2019s billion-dollar-making The Odyssey adaptation for months, even before it was released over the summer. Musk criticized the casting of Lupita Nyong\u2019o<\/a> as Helen Of Troy, saying that it \u201cdesecrated\u201d the source material, and complained about the rumored casting of Elliot Page, a trans actor, as Achilles (Page ended up playing Sinon, not Achilles). Nolan, for his part, was largely unfazed<\/a> by all the backlash, having already been there, done that with the Batman crowd when he directed his trilogy. And the director is likely unbothered by Musk\u2019s attempt at filmmaking\u2014if you can even call it that.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Grok Imagine released the first episode of its promised AI-generated take on The Odyssey, and it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-813909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}