A Tesla solar lease customer logging into their account to review their contract got something considerably more ancient: The Book of Enoch, a roughly 2,000-year-old Hebrew religious text that didn't make it into most Bibles. Tesla confirmed the mix-up, apologized, and sent the correct document — but has offered no explanation for how it happened. Here's what we know.This doesn't sound real, but someone named Fred Lambert at an outfit called electrek says he has verified it.*[...]
The video in Mr. Lambert's X.com post show that the mis-sent file was an early English translation by Richard Laurence.
The real question is, what was a translation of 1 Enoch doing floating around on the Tesla server? Some possibilities have been suggested, the most entertaining of which involve AI.
Also, given 1 Enoch's focus on the solar calendar, is it just a coincidence that the file went to a solar lease customer?
If 1 Enoch is trendy enough that AIs are looking into it, well, things are getting interesting.
For additional examples of the current trendiness of 1 Enoch, see here and links. Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch and Algorithm Watch(?).
*Yes, I know 1 Enoch was written at least mostly in Aramaic, not Hebrew, and was translated into Greek and Ethiopic. Not important here.
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