AI goes in search of Homer

Some guy on Twitter/X has asked Claude.ai to do a "literal" prose translation of The Odyssey, because he didn't want to read the one that Nolan used.  He has published the results, too, but has made little comment about the quality.  There are many sceptical comments:

Perhaps my favourite:

I also have been surprised to see quite a few people (presumably Americans) say in comments that they had to read it in high school.   To me, this seems rather surprisingly "high brow" of US high schools.  (Claude.ai says it has been a prescribed text since the mid 20th century, most commonly in 9th grade english.)  I doubt that it has ever been such in Australia.   (Claude.ai seems to think I am correct - suggesting that extracts from it have probably only ever featured in late primary school as an introduction to mythology.)   

 

Oh, further to fun tweets on the story, and the ridiculous MAGA reaction to the Nolan movie, get a load of this: