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Elon Musk celebrates $1 trillion Tesla win with AI love video
One user says the “always love you” clip “the most divorced post of all time.”
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Elon Musk is having quite a weekend, and in true Elon fashion, it’s equal parts tech demo, internet chaos, and existential cringe.
Fresh off Tesla shareholders approving a trillion-dollar compensation package, Musk decided to celebrate not with champagne, but with some late-night AI weirdness on X (Twitter).
At 4:20 AM, because of course it was 4:20 AM, Musk posted a video made with Grok Imagine, his new AI photo and video generator from xAI.
The prompt? “She smiles and says, ‘I will always love you.’” The result? A slightly uncanny animated woman standing in the rain, whispering those words in the kind of voice you might hear from a GPS that’s way too emotionally attached.
Twenty-four minutes later, Musk doubled down, sharing another Grok-generated video, this time of actress Sydney Sweeney saying, “You are so cringe,” in a voice that sounded not particularly Sydney Sweeney-ish.
If this was supposed to be self-aware irony, the internet wasn’t buying it.
Within hours, X users pounced. One dubbed the “always love you” clip “the most divorced post of all time.”
Another called it “the saddest post in the history of this website.” For once, the site that never stops roasting had a rare moment of unity.
But the harshest review came not from a meme account, but from literary royalty.
Joyce Carol Oates, the 87-year-old novelist and Twitter veteran, chimed in after watching Musk spar with critics over his new payday.
“So curious,” she wrote, that Musk “never posts anything that indicates he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates,” things like friends, pets, or, you know, joy.
She went on to call him “totally uneducated, uncultured,” suggesting that even the poorest users on X “may have access to more beauty & meaning in life.”
Musk’s reply? A simple, icy takedown: “Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.”
And thus, another perfectly normal weekend in Elon Musk’s universe.
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