Midterms season is a time of stress. In response, students try to find many ways to cope with the stress. Some of the most popular strategies include all-nighters at Butler Library, ingesting enough caffeine to kill a horse, and, in some cases, using OpenAI’s ChatGPT to finally do all those homeworks you didn’t submit. However, a group of students took this last strategy one step further when they drew a pentagram on the floor of their suite and attempted to summon OpenAI creator and CEO, Sam Altman, to ask him for help directly.
Instead, they got Elon Musk, the controversy-loving South African billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, embattled owner of X (formerly Twitter), and the richest person in the world. The panicking students attempted to quash their confusion and explain to a completely unfazed Musk that no, they didn’t mean to summon him, and this was all a big misunderstanding. However, their confusion was resolved when Musk, in a tone of voice that one would use for a somewhat-dim small child, explained that he had bought the domain of all tech-bro summoning circles, and this happens a lot to him, and they should feel honored to even be in his presence. He also added, at least twice, that the students should drop everything and watch his latest appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
Finally, one student braved to speak up to the still-bragging Musk and ask if he could just possibly help them with their midterms. In response, Musk shrugged, told them to use his Grok AI, and then charged the students $500 as his “appearance fee” before walking back through the pentagram and vanishing.
For the students, it was a baffling and horrifying event. For Musk, it was a regular Tuesday.
