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Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 22
AI Odyssey Parody Casts JD Vance as Cyclops as Creator Builds 100s of Mocking Videos
Updated
Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 22

AI Odyssey Parody Casts JD Vance as Cyclops as Creator Builds 100s of Mocking Videos

3 articles · Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 22

Summary

  • A new AI-generated "Odyssey" parody depicts JD Vance as the Cyclops, with the vice president shown trapping Odysseus's men, chugging hot dog water and later suffering pink eye in a crude gag.
  • NostromoCore, the account behind the video, has already posted hundreds of AI clips mocking Vance and built an audience in the hundreds of thousands across Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.
  • The video lands in a broader AI culture-war fight, using the same generative tools that Elon Musk and other right-wing figures have used for anti-"woke" propaganda to turn the mockery back on them.
  • Musk had earlier promised Grok would produce a full-length, Homer-faithful "Odyssey" by year-end after Christopher Nolan's adaptation topped $1 billion, but that project has yet to appear.

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