Elon Musk says Grok will make 'historically accurate' Odyssey film by year-end

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/22/tech/musk-grok-odyssey-adaptation-scli-intl

by shrike • 6 hours ago

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hn_acker• 6 hours ago

More exciting than such an AI-generated movie would be all of the prompts approved for the final product (unless the prompts themselves were to be mostly AI-generated).

Zigurd• 5 hours ago

The most exciting thing about a historically accurate version will be all the butt sex.

dabinat• 3 hours ago

I don’t know what “historically accurate” even means for a fantasy movie that contains a cyclops and gods talking to humans.

I think this is probably noise and he will have moved onto something else by the end of the year.

But it does show a new potential distasteful use for gen AI: remaking or modifying movies to erase the accomplishments of people of color.

krapp• 3 hours ago

Charitably I would assume "historically accurate" refers to things like sets, clothing, etc - even with the inclusion of supernatural elements, an attempt to portray the Odyssey as something Greeks of the time might imagine while seeing the play performed.

It's funny because AI is trained on public data, much of which is based on stereotypes and media which is very historically inaccurate, and all of the attempts I've seen at "history with AI" look right to the layman but fall apart as soon as a historian sees them. Greek myth is particularly bad because it often has to be reframed around recognizable Judeo-Christian morality (Hades being a Satan analogue being one obvious example) and modern anachronisms to be palatable to modern audiences.

The concept is intellectually interesting because it would play with the idea that "the past is a foreign country," but it's exactly the sort of thing you wouldn't want to do with an AI at all.

... that said we all know "historically accurate" more often than not means "no black people," since Musk has literally called Nolan an "anti-white racist" for casting Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy. Even though the presence of black Africans within the ancient Greek world would have been perfectly historically accurate, and it's a myth with monsters and gods and bullshit.

Elon Musk says Grok will make 'historically accurate' Odyssey film by year-end

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