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.

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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.…