After Tesla shareholders approved a new compensation package that could be worth up to $1 trillion, Elon Musk appeared to be marking the occasion with a low-key weekend on his social media platform X. In a post early Saturday morning—conveniently timed to 4:20 a.m. EST—Musk shared a video generated by Grok Imagine, the new AI-powered image and video creation tool from his company xAI. The video, created from the prompt “She smiles and says, ‘I will always love you,’” features an animated woman standing on a rainy street, uttering the words in a clearly synthetic voice. Just 24 minutes later, Musk followed up with another Grok-generated clip: a video of actress Sydney Sweeney speaking in a voice that bears little resemblance to her own, saying, “You are so cringe.” The posts quickly drew attention, with many X users reacting with a mix of amusement and unease. One user called the “I will always love you” video “the most divorced post of all time,” while another described it as “the saddest post in the history of this website.” But the sharpest criticism came not from a random user, but from 87-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joyce Carol Oates. Responding to a complex thread in which Musk defended his massive pay package by retorting to a Texas state senator’s criticism, Oates wrote a scathing comment. She noted it was “so curious” that Musk never shares anything that suggests he appreciates the simple joys most people value—friends, family, nature, pets, music, books, or films. “In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured,” she wrote. “The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’” Musk’s reply was brief and direct: “Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.” The exchange underscored the growing cultural divide between Musk’s public persona and the broader public’s expectations of emotional connection, creativity, and humanity—especially as he leans further into AI tools that blur the line between reality and simulation.