
AI filmMusk's AI 'Odyssey' episode one is out — MBC News video tops 190,000 views; top comment: 'That's what the Grok owner got with full effort'
MBC News' video on reactions to Elon Musk's AI series 'Odyssey,' made with Grok Imagine, passed 190,000 views. The channel has 6.21 million subscribers.
Per MBC, the roughly seven-minute first episode went up on X last weekend and hit 7 million views. It shows Odysseus leaving his wife and young son for the Trojan War, with characters, fleets and battles all AI-generated. Musk had vowed a 'historically accurate' film after objecting to the casting in Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey.'
Reception is cold. MBC said critics and viewers called it 'crude and grotesque' and 'trash, as expected,' citing unnatural lip movement and emotion. One X user said that if this is what the world's richest man can produce, AI won't replace real films anytime soon. The Guardian's review called it 'the dullest, most pointless riposte possible to Christopher Nolan's brilliant epic.'
The top comment (203 likes): 'In other words, this is what the Grok owner got at full effort.' Others: 'Looks like the AI movies being made elsewhere' (133) and 'If that's what unlimited coins got him, still a long way to go' (76).