WorldThe Guardian‘Meaningless as a laptop screensaver’: reviewers slate Musk’s AI-made Odyssey film
Elon Musk released a seven-minute AI-generated Odyssey episode via Grok, and critics have panned it as hollow and meaningless compared to Nolan's $250 million blockbuster.
Tesla tycoon launched Grok project after criticising Christoper Nolan’s diverse casting for his Homeric blockbuster
Elon Musk released the first episode of an AI-generated Odyssey film made with Grok Imagine, after criticising Christopher Nolan's big-budget version.
The seven-minute episode was made in under two weeks by a team of three and cost tens of thousands of dollars, compared to Nolan's $250 million film.
Critics have been scathing, with the Guardian giving it one star and calling it as meaningless as shapes moving on a laptop screensaver.
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