Following the approval of a new compensation plan by Tesla shareholders, potentially valued at $1 trillion, CEO Elon Musk seems to be enjoying a typical weekend on his social media site X.

In a post made early Saturday morning at the coincidental time of 4:20am EST, Musk shared a video produced by Grok Imagine, the latest photo and video creation tool developed by his company xAI. 

According to Musk, the video was crafted from his input, “She smiles and says, ‘I will always love you.’” The video indeed depicts an animated woman on a wet street, uttering those words in a clearly synthetic voice.

Shortly after, twenty-four minutes later, Musk published another Grok-generated video featuring actress Sydney Sweeney, who, in a voice markedly uncharacteristic of her, states, “You are so cringe.”

While it has become increasingly prevalent to observe odd behavior towards AI-generated women and the formation of romantic attachments to chatbots, many users on X seized upon the “always love you” video in particular, with one labeling it as “the most divorced post of all time” and another dubbing it “the saddest post in the history of this website.”

Surprisingly, neither of those critiques was the harshest comment aimed at Musk posted on X this weekend. Instead, the top criticism came from 87-year-old, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates.

In response to a convoluted series of posts where one user praised Musk’s rebuttal to a Texas state senator who criticized his compensation, Oates remarked on how “so curious” it is that Musk “never shares anything that suggests he enjoys or is aware of what virtually everyone values,” be it posts about friends, family, nature, pets, films, music, or literature.

“In fact, he appears completely uneducated, uncultured,” she continued. “The least wealthy individuals on Twitter may experience more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘richest person in the world.’”

To which Musk simply replied, “Oates is a liar and enjoys being cruel. Not a good human.”