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In a Monday morning post that included zero words or commentary, Musk posted a visibly AI-generated image of a strange-looking version of the Cybertruck on a rainy, neon-lit street at night. It looks too short, too wide, and seems to be missing its pickup bed. Further undermining the photorealism, its license plate number is unreadably jumbled.
Near the car is a sign that reads "Tesla," though the spacing between letters is pretty far off. Underneath that sign is another that, strangely enough, reads "Me Toi," which could be a broken French translation of "Me Too" a la the anti-workplace sexual harassment battlecry that hasin recent years. Or, of course, it could just be the type of garbled AI-generated imagery that's now rapidly filling the internet, impressing almost nobody except tech CEOs.
Though it's impossible to say who the original quote-unquote artist is, the image has been circulating for a while. In early June, for instance, aWhile it's goofy as heck that he posted it, it's not exactly shocking for Musk to be sharing generative AI art this way.OpenAI and talking a big game about Tesla's AI endeavors for the better part of a decade, the 53-year-old tycoon decided to begin truly investing in the burgeoning technology via xAI, yet another venture.
After right-wingers lost their minds over Google's Gemini image generator spitting out images of a Black George Washington, Musk cosigned a claim that the results represented a "push to lecture us on diversity" and that the trend is visible elsewhere. Could a Musk-funded AI image generator be next? Only time will tell — but if it's in the Grok style, it's probably gonna be
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