如今，那些所谓“西方文明”的捍卫者们，很少再谈论《奥德赛》了。
You don’t hear the defenders of so-called western civilization talk much about The Odyssey these days.
也许是因为他们对克里斯托弗·诺兰改编荷马史诗的电影发起的疯狂抨击，被一场票房雪崩活埋了。这部七月份上映的暑期大片在全球斩获近18亿美元票房，让那些因演员阵容多元化和偏离原著素材而预测该片将大卖特卖的右翼人士闭上了嘴。
Maybe that’s because their rabid denunciations of Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of Homer’s epic were buried in an avalanche of money. The July blockbuster has grossed nearly $1.8 billion worldwide, silencing the right-wingers who predicted a massive flop due to diverse casting and deviations from the source material.
这些抢在上映前发起批评的人当中，或许以埃隆·马斯克的声音最大。这位世界首富对他认为是对古希腊叙事的亵渎之作，倾泻了满腔恶毒；影片上映四天后，他誓言要制作一个更优秀的版本。“今年年底前，”马斯克在X上写道，“Grok Imagine将制作一部《奥德赛》全长电影，做到历史准确、忠于荷马的艺术。”三个多月过去了——舆论早已转移——公众终于得以一睹我们不妨称之为“Grodyssey”（注：Grok与Odyssey的合成词，含讽刺意味）的真容，那是一部通过向xAI的视频和图像生成模型输入提示词而渲染出的《奥德赛》。
Perhaps the loudest of these preemptive critics was Elon Musk. The world’s richest man spared no vitriol for what he considered a desecration of the ancient Greek narrative; four days after its release, he vowed to produce a superior version. “Before this year ends,” Musk wrote on X, “Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer.”A little more than three months later—long after the discourse moved on—the public finally has a first glimpse of what we might call the Grodyssey, an Odyssey rendered through prompts fed into xAI’s video and image generation model.
与其说是“全长电影”，不如说它是一个显然还在持续制作中的系列的七分钟“剧集”，描绘了伊萨卡国王奥德修斯如何抗拒对特洛伊开战的号召，却最终因忠诚誓言的约束，被迫率军远征。
Rather than a “full-length movie,” it’s a seven-minute “episode” of an apparently ongoing series, depicting how Odysseus, King of Ithaca, resists a call to war against Troy but is ultimately compelled by an oath of loyalty to sail there with his army.
“奥德赛与格罗克想象”，马斯克周五在X上分享该片段时宣布，该片段由AI娱乐公司Wonder Studios X制作。这条低调的帖子仅获得1.8万个赞，参与度明显低于其他近期帖子，那些帖子中，马斯克对巴西选举结果表示怀疑，抱怨代词，并贬低“传统媒体”。
“Odyssey with Grok Imagine,” Musk announced Friday on X when sharing the clip, produced by AI entertainment company Wonder Studios X. The subdued post received just 18,000 likes, notably less engagement than other recent posts in which Musk cast doubt on the results of Brazil’s elections, complained about pronouns, and disparaged “legacy news.”
格罗克的首集具有许多AI垃圾内容的典型特征。面部动作与对话不匹配，而生硬不自然的表达进一步削弱了对话效果。除了奥德修斯，主要角色均未以姓名介绍，节奏问题更是荒谬：例如，伊萨卡人离开家园后立即抵达特洛伊海岸。即使是X上的蓝色认证标志用户也对其评价严厉。“有人真的看完了这个，还决定发出来？”一名用户写道。
Grok’s introductory episode bears many hallmarks of AI slop. The movements of faces don’t match the dialogue, which is further undercut by stilted and unnatural delivery. Besides Odysseus, none of the principal characters are introduced by name, and the pacing issues are laughable: the Ithacans arrive on the shores of Troy immediately after leaving their homeland, for example. Even the blue checks on X were harsh in their assessment. “Someone actually watched this and still decided to post it?” wrote one user.
“把那个人炒掉。”但马斯克的既定目标并非呈现一部更具视觉效果或叙事更连贯的《奥德赛》版本。他和他的文化战争同伙可疑地声称，他们反对诺兰选用黑人和跨性别演员、反对这些角色所说的美国化英语，以及反对电影中各种船只和盔甲的设计，理由是这些“历史不准确”。因此，马斯克保证推出一部“历史准确”的纠正版本。
“Fire that person.”But Musk’s stated goal wasn’t to deliver a better-looking or more narratively cohesive version of The Odyssey. He and his culture war comrades dubiously claimed that they were against Nolan’s casting of Black and trans actors, the Americanized English spoken by the characters they played, and various designs of ships and armor in the film because they were “historically inaccurate.”Hence Musk’s guarantee of a “historically accurate” corrective.
那么，Grok Imagine 在这方面成功了吗？让 Grok 进行自我评估，得到的回答颇具意味。“没有，”当被问及这段《奥德赛》片段是否符合史实时，该聊天机器人回答。“Grok Imagine 的第一集（以及承诺推出的更广泛系列）是荷马《奥德赛》的改编，而非对真实事件的历史准确重构。”
So, did Grok Imagine succeed on that front? Asking Grok for a self-evaluation yields an interesting answer. “No,” the chatbot says when queried about whether this Odyssey snippet is historically accurate. “Grok Imagine’s Episode 1 (and the broader promised series) is an adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, not a historically accurate reconstruction of real events.”
该 AI 模型进一步指出，这些人物在历史记载中毫无依据，且这首史诗以“神话”和“虚构”为主，而非确凿事件。“荷马笔下的社会混合了可能的青铜时代元素（以宫殿为中心的王国、某些战士习俗）与后来铁器时代的特征，”它还指出。“许多细节属于时代错误或文学创作。”
The AI model further notes that the characters have no basis in the historical record, and that the poem is dominated by “myth” and “invention” rather than confirmed events. “Homeric society mixes possible Bronze Age elements (palace-centered kingdoms, certain warrior practices) with later Iron Age features,” it also states. “Many details are anachronistic or literary.”
在列举该剧集“不符合严格历史标准”的理由时，Grok 指出，剧中人物说的是带有英式口音的现代英语，“而非荷马希腊语或任何重构的青铜时代语言”。在视觉呈现上，它称该制作反映的是“现代电影套路和 AI 训练数据”，而非“第一手考古证据”。（该机器人引用战斗场面中出现骑兵为例，称与该时期的标准重构相比属于错误。）Grok 总结道：“《奥德赛》本身不是历史文献，该制作在考古或语言学层面未作严肃的还原尝试，仅呈现出一种笼统的‘古希腊史诗’美学。”
In laying out the reasons that the episode “does not meet a strict historical standard,” Grok points out that the characters speak modern English with British accents, “not Homeric Greek or any reconstructed Bronze Age language.”Visually, it says, the production reflects “modern cinematic tropes and AI training data,” not “primary archaeological evidence.” (The bot cites the appearance of cavalry in a battle scene as an error when compared with standard reconstructions of the period.) Grok concludes that “The Odyssey itself is not a historical document, and the production makes no serious attempt at archaeological or linguistic fidelity beyond a general ‘ancient Greek epic’ aesthetic.”
当然，改编一部充满神祇、女巫、魔法与怪物、流传千年的传说所享有的创作自由，除了马斯克和少数坚持认为诺兰违背了某种根本真实的英雄冒险记述的怪人之外，几乎人人都能理解。甚至 Grok 都能告诉你，其主人的暴躁情绪让他许下了不可能兑现的承诺——这正如他屡屡所为。
Of course, the creative license that comes with adapting a millennia-old legend swarming with gods, witches, magic, and monsters was understood by just about everyone but Musk and a handful of cranks insisting that Nolan had contradicted some fundamentally true account of heroic adventure. Even Grok can tell you that its master’s fit of pique led him to promise the impossible—as he so often does.