Grok 发布 AI 生成版《奥德赛》前 7 分钟片段

在埃隆·马斯克宣称 Grok 将推出完整长篇且“符合历史史实”的电影版《奥德赛》（The Odyssey）三个月后，Grok 正式发布了整整 7 分钟的内容——该公司目前将其称为“我们《奥德赛》系列作品的第 1 集”。

此前，马斯克曾猛烈抨击克里斯托弗·诺兰（Christopher Nolan）执导的《奥德赛》版本，原因是诺兰起用了非白人及跨性别演员。而在许多层面上，诺兰都是马斯克的绝佳对照——当这位 SpaceX 和特斯拉 CEO 极力炒作太空数据中心并持续发布大量 AI 生成内容时，诺兰却自称为“技术怀疑论者”，并表示在 AI 出现之前，他从未见过任何一项技术“遭到公众如此彻底的排斥”。

尽管诺兰版本的《奥德赛》确实运用了大量视觉特效，但它本质上是一场实景实拍的电影壮举，拍摄足迹跨越六个国家，演职人员多达数千人。该片于 7 月上映后取得了非凡的票房成功，IMAX 放映场次连续数月售罄，并成为下届奥斯卡金像奖的大热门竞争者。

至于 Grok 版的《奥德赛》（由 Wonder Studios 与导演 Dev Walker 联合制作），嗯，大家完全可以亲自看看。

我承认它并没有我预想中那么惨不忍睹，而且确实比马斯克最近发布的其他视频更令人印象深刻。要不是我提前知情，片中的某些瞬间我甚至可能真会以为那是真实的演员在真实的大海上航行。虽然我无法评价 Grok 在历史考据上的准确性，但片中所有角色的肤色确实都完全契合马斯克所认可的规格，而旁白则带着一种英国口音——任何在过去 25 年里玩过奇幻类电子游戏或看过套路化好莱坞史诗片的人，都会对这种语调感到极为熟悉。

该片段真正匮乏的，是任何层面的艺术感、灵感或人文关怀。由前述旁白交代的故事背景没完没了，最终引出一张又一张满脸络腮胡的面孔，每个人都在咆哮着生硬造作的台词，相比之下诺兰电影里的对白简直就像莎士比亚的诗篇。

尽管少数独立镜头能对现实提供尚可乱真的拟态，但整部短片给人的感受却完全是窒息且死气沉沉的，既没有推动剧情发展的张力，也无法唤起观众对银幕上任何人物或事件的丝毫共情。在时长近三个小时的诺兰版《奥德赛》中，我能毫不费力地全程全神贯注；然而在 Grok 版本甚至还没播到一半时，我便已经开始无精打采地频频查看进度条还剩多久了。

很难想象还有谁会对接下来的又一个 7 分钟产生兴趣，更不用说支撑起一部完整电影的体量了。

Three months after Elon Musk declared that Grok would release a full-length, “historically accurate” movie version of “The Odyssey,” Grok has published a whole seven minutes — what the company is now calling “Episode 1 of our Odyssey series.”

Musk had previously lashed out at Christopher Nolan’s version of “The Odyssey” because Nolan cast nonwhite and transgender actors. And Nolan is, in many ways, a perfect foil for Musk — while SpaceX and Tesla CEO hypes up data centers in space and posts an unending stream of AI-generated content, Nolan has described himself as “a techno-skeptic” and said that before AI, he’d never seen a technology “so completely rejected by the public.”

And while Nolan’s version of “The Odyssey” certainly used plenty of visual effects, it’s primarily a feat of practical filmmaking, with a shoot spanning six countries and a cast and crew of thousands. After its release in July, the film became an extraordinary box office success, selling out Imax screenings for months and becoming the likely front-runner at the next Academy Awards.

As for the Grok version of “The Odyssey” (created in collaboration with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker), well, you can watch for yourself.

I’ll admit it’s not as spectacularly ugly as I’d expected, and certainly more impressive than other videos that Musk has posted recently. If I didn’t know better, there were moments when I might have thought these were real actors sailing across a real sea. And while I can’t speak to Grok’s historical accuracy, it does seem that all the characters come in a Musk-approved skin color, while the narrator uses a British accent that will sound familiar to anyone who’s played a fantasy video game or watched a generic Hollywood epic from the past 25 years.

What the footage really lacks is any sense of artistry, inspiration, or human interest. The backstory — delivered via the aforementioned voiceover — seems to go on forever, finally giving way to one bearded face after another, each shouting stilted lines that make Nolan’s dialogue sound like Shakespeare.

While a few individual shots might provide a reasonable simulacrum of reality, the whole thing feels completely airless, offering viewers no sense of momentum, no reason to care about anyone or anything on-screen. And where I had no trouble paying attention for the nearly three-hour runtime of Nolan’s “Odyssey,” I was listlessly checking how much I had left before the Grok version was even halfway through.

It’s hard to imagine being interested in another seven minutes of this, much less a full movie’s worth.