Elon Musk’s AI ‘The Odyssey’ remake dismissed as “garbage”

Elon Musk has followed through on his promise to create a historically accurate version of The Odyssey using AI – and the reviews aren’t good. READ MORE: ‘The Odyssey’ review: cinema may have peaked with Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster epic On Friday night (October 23) X’s AI platform Grok shared the first episode of its AI-generated The Odyssey series, created using Grok Imagine in collaboration with AI filmmaking specialists Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker. The project came about after X boss Elon Musk took issue with the casting of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and promised to create a “historically accurate” version of the Homer classic that was “true to [his] art” by the end of 2026. Before the film was released, Musk accused Nolan of being an “anti-white racist” who had lost his “integrity” by casting Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra. He also supported transphobic posts about Elliot Page, after some users incorrectly claimed that the actor had been cast as Achilles. Page plays the Greek soldier Sinon. Musk also accused Nolan of “desecrating Homer” to meet what he called the “woke rules required to win an Oscar”. Nolan later dismissed the pre-release ...