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Due to his constant desire Post random junk Elon Musk may have run out of money on the social network he’s owned for nearly two years.
In a post devoid of words or comment Monday morning, Musk shared a bizarre, clearly AI-generated, image of the Cybertruck on a neon-lit street on a rainy night: The car is too short, too wide, and appears to have no pickup bed, plus the license plate number is so scrambled that it’s almost unreadable, ruining any sense of photorealism.
Near the car is a sign that says “Tesla,” but the letters are spaced far apart, and curiously below it is a sign that reads “Me Toi,” which may be a French translation of “Me Too,” a slogan against sexual harassment in the workplace. The charges against Musk were and Tesla Or, of course, this could just be one of those messy AI-generated images that now rapidly flood the internet and impress almost no one except tech CEOs.
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Like most of Musk’s other meme posts, the image is not his original work.
It’s unclear who the original so-called artist is, but the image has been circulating for some time. For example, in early June, Posted by a random car enthusiast account On Instagram.
About a week later, the image Reposted by DogeDesigner X account. Sometime between then and now, Musk must have found it and thought it was a nifty idea.
While it’s pretty weird that he posted this in the first place, it’s not all that shocking that Musk would share his generative AI art in this way.
The 53-year-old billionaire, who co-founded OpenAI before leaving the company and famously spent nearly a decade boasting about Tesla’s AI efforts, has decided to start investing in the fast-growing technology in earnest through his new venture, xAI.
The result is Grok, an anti-woke chatbot hosted on Musk’s X platform, with a second instalment planned for release this August, according to its creator.
Musk has not publicly proposed plans for his own AI image generator, but he has criticized image generators made by other companies as having a liberal bias.
After right-wing outrage over Google’s Gemini image generator spitting out an image of a black George Washington, Musk chimed in, saying the results represented a “pressure to lecture us about diversity” and that this trend is being seen elsewhere too.
“Google Gemini is not the only problem” He posted“It’s also a Google search.”
Could a Musk-funded AI image generator be next? Only time will tell, but if it’s Grok-style, it’ll probably be pretty crude.
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