We’d Rather Watch Paint Dry Than Elon Musk’s “Historically Accurate” AI-Generated Odyssey

Which would you rather watch: A critically acclaimed blockbuster with $250 million of human effort poured into it, starring some of the biggest movie stars on the planet? Or an AI version of The Odyssey made by right-wing billionaire Elon Musk’s slop machine?Musk promised on his social media platform X on Tuesday that his visual generative AI tool Grok Imagine would “make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer,” as Deadline noted.Before 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 https://t.co/bVHzUmY9WN— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 22, 2026 This bold declaration came in response to a Grok Imagine-generated teaser created by an X user that, as one critic pointed out, appears to include drugstore foam earplugs. So much for historical accuracy!I love how they had cheap yellow drugstore earplugs in the bronze age pic.twitter.com/FTx9MUmpSF— Lee Lambo (@ILikesDogs) July 22, 2026 The whole thing is embarrassing proof that racism and transphobia have melted people’s critical thinking skills. Because, as we have emphasized several times here at Them in response to the controversy over Elliot Page’s casting, Homer’s The Odyssey is a myth. The events described therein did not literally happen. The narrative contains mermaids whose singing can drive you insane and witches who turn people into swine. Does any of this sound like history? No, it is make-believe, and always has been. And even if it were a depiction of historical events, inclusive casting only seems to bother the most addled of right-wing brains.It is also proof that people like Musk, despite being a near-trillionaire, must still be incredibly jealous of people with Christopher Nolan’s inimitable talent and cool factor. The Odyssey director is widely beloved, even by right-wing commentators; he’s powering into an incredible week at the box-office, hot on