Silicon Valley’s most notorious tech billionaire has done it again, proving that his imagination knows no bounds, and possibly no sense of social decorum.

Elon Musk, fresh off securing a jaw-dropping $1 trillion compensation package from Tesla shareholders, decided to celebrate by exploring the depths of artificial romantic longing using Grok, his latest AI toy.

When AI Meets Awkward Romance

In a quintessential Musk-ian moment, he generated an AI video at the suspiciously meme-worthy time of 4:20am, featuring a synthetic woman dramatically declaring “I will always love you” on a rainy street. Because nothing says genuine emotion like a computer-generated monologue, right?

Literary Shade Enters the Chat

The internet’s collective eyebrow was already raised, but then 87-year-old literary queen Joyce Carol Oates entered the chat. With surgical precision, she dismantled Musk’s public persona, noting he seemingly lacks any genuine human connection, suggesting that “the poorest persons on Twitter may have more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world’”.

The Musk Response

Musk, predictably, responded with all the maturity of a teenage debate club president, calling Oates a “liar” who “delights in being mean”. Classic Elon: when in doubt, attack.

The whole spectacle is a bizarre testament to our increasingly blurred lines between technology, emotion, and performative weirdness. Welcome to 2025, where billionaires use AI to simulate love and literary icons serve the most eloquent burns on social media.