Elon Musk has been ridiculed after the world’s richest man posted an AI-generated video of a woman saying, “I will always love you.”
In the short clip shared by Musk, 54, on X early Saturday morning, the young brunette smiles at the camera before saying the line.
The video aimed to show off the new life-like video generation capabilities of Grok Imagine, part of Musk’s xAI company, but was quickly deluged with comments mocking the multi-billionaire.
“The saddest post in the history of this website. I’m crying,” one X user wrote.
“This was posted at 3 in the morning Central Time,” a second added — a reference to the location of Musk’s compound in Texas.
A third joked it was “the most divorced post of all time.”
Several users pointed out that the clip proved money doesn’t bring happiness, coming just hours after Tesla shareholders approved Musk’s historic $1 trillion pay package.
“Bro gets a $1 trillion pay package and hours later he’s using his AI to imagine someone telling him ‘I love you,’” they wrote.
“It really ain’t about the money if you don’t have love and someone to share it with. If this ain’t proof, I don’t know what is.”
Musk has been bullish about the long-term benefits of AI, while warning that it will wipe out millions of desk jobs.
Describing the technology as a “supersonic tsunami,” Musk said there will be considerable “trauma and disruption” in a recent interview with Joe Rogan on the comedian’s podcast.
“Anything that’s physically moving atoms, like cooking food or farming, anything that’s physical, those jobs will exist for a much longer time,” Musk said.
“But anything that is digital, which is just someone at a computer doing something, AI is going to take over those jobs like lightning,” he added.
However, the good news for unemployed desk jockeys, Musk said, is that a universal high income could be brought in, removing the need to work.
“Ultimately, working will be optional because you’ll have robots plus AI. And we’ll have, in a benign scenario, universal high income, not just universal basic income,” he said.
“Universal high income, meaning anyone can have any products or services that they want, but there will be a lot of trauma and disruption along the way,” Musk told Rogan.
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