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The richest man on Earth is putting his money behind a cause that really matters: making a worse version of \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d to appease right-wing cranks.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, Elon Musk shared a video created by an X user via the social media platform\u2019s integrated generative AI, Grok. The clip showed a conversation between Odysseus and Calypso, a nymph who holds the mythical king on her island for several years. Musk said the clip was a preview of what could be done with his in-house AI, promising a full movie by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Nothing in the clip suggests that Grok\u2019s take on the epic poem will be any more faithful than Nolan\u2019s. Musk can be counted among the many conservatives who were angered by Nolan\u2019s decision to cast Lupita Nyong\u2019o as Helen of Troy and Elliot Page as Sinon. Both Odysseus and Calypso were played by cisgender white actors in Nolan\u2019s film (Matt Damon and Charlize Theron, respectively). This appears to be true in the Grok recreation.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere on X, Musk expressed support for the idea of hiring Mel Gibson to direct a version of \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d entirely in Homeric Greek, with a focus on historical accuracy and fealty to Greek culture. The trouble, of course, is that the events of \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d did not occur in history and the people they \u201chappened\u201d to would not have considered themselves Greek.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not sure that any artificial intelligence that currently exists can solve that particular problem. What we\u2019re likely to be left with is an adaptation that hits all of the beats of the hundreds of motion picture takes on the story with all of their charms and idiosyncrasies smoothed away.<\/p>\n

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