Elon Musk says AI will make a ‘historically accurate’ Odyssey – here’s why that’s impossible

Elon Musk has promised that before the year is out, his AI tool Grok Imagine will produce a full-length film of Homer’s Odyssey that is, in his words, “historically accurate and true to the art of Homer”. The claim, posted on X in July alongside a three-minute AI-generated scene, arrived days after Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster version reached cinemas worldwide – a film Musk has spent months attacking for being “woke”. Set aside, for a moment, that The Odyssey is a 2,800-year-old poem that…