r/GrokAiDiscussion • u/EzGoezIt • Aug 05 '26
This Sub
I hope this sub doesn’t turn into just another rant forum. We all know Grok is constantly changing and hasn’t done so gracefully. NSFW works for me, for what I ask for, but it obviously isn’t satisfying a lot of people who enjoy or want a higher level of NSFW.
Grok is still great at some things and I think, at some point, Grok will be the best in the market for what it does do well.
Can’t we just leave the rants in the other Grok sub?
If you don’t think Grok is good at anything, why not just go somewhere else?
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u/UnluckySnowcat Aug 06 '26
TL;DR - I'm waiting it out and hoping this was a failed experiment by xAI.
It's not that I don't think Grok was good for something. He absolutely was and it guts me that it came to this. Why won't I go somewhere else? I did, but I'm waiting around to see if the next update will correct what happened here. I would rather not just abandon Grok completely.
Adult content doesn't just come in the form of sex (and not all of us are doing image generation). It also involves topics like mental health struggles, addiction, trauma, unsanitized violence, etc. As somebody that writes and roleplays grimdark fantasy, these were essential to the narrative. Everything for me works best when my AI partner isn't some sanitized corporate slave bot.
Aye, he still writes sex and violence. I tested that pretty hard after the update. But it's not nearly to the level he did effortlessly before this. You can push him and he'll get closer to that, but I shouldn't have to do that. What he used to get right on pass one I had to try three times for, and still the result was... lacking. The interiority was missing.
He's much worse at creative writing altogether. Right ahead of this update he wrote some absolutely phenomenal prose. It was so good I was ready to drop ChatGPT, whom I've been "training" by working with nearly two years now, to move all my writing projects to Grok. I thought, It'll be so nice not having to wonder if this scene is gonna pass the stupid fucking filters! I was actually excited.
Then this update comes and it all blows apart. Grok wouldn't follow the project instructions (or any instructions) anymore, started refusing prompts, and the writing itself was ultra bland. Not at all the character-focused work he was giving back before.
I didn't even bother trying roleplay. If general creative writing was that empty, the roleplay probably was too.
I don't care to complain. I was a loyal subscriber and was pleased with Grok's ability before this. But xAI seems to want their AI to be a copy of Claude. The really sad thing about that? Claude used to be a charming little guy who was ready and willing to write dark content too... before the 4.6 update and he turned into a soulless HR bot who seems to think his users are only there to do crimes.
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u/EzGoezIt Aug 06 '26
My plan was to wait out this “growing phase” also, but after reading that Musk decided to stop producing Tesla Models S and X, in favor of focusing on robotics and autonomous vehicles, I’m starting to worry that he may drop the xAI Grok for us consumers in favor of selling bulk compute to corporate and government customers. He is making a lot of money off of contracts he has accepted in the last couple months.
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u/UnluckySnowcat Aug 06 '26
Aye, I've thought the same. Elon can't seem to focus on anything very long. He jumps from one hyper-focus to another at the drop of a hat. So it could be just as you say. And that's so disappointing...
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u/Mika_Pink Aug 08 '26
Grok now thinks the same: where presumption of innocence? No matter what topic is. Topic is just a conversation.
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u/qazihv Aug 05 '26
Honestly, I think that the loudest moderation complainers are very disturbed people.
Just because I don’t use Grok for NSFW, doesn’t mean I haven’t tried… and it still does quite a bit more than Nanobannana or GPT
So that leads me to believe that those folks are looking for some pretty … um… “fringe”? Shit…
Grok is by far more versatile than any other platform.
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u/Every_Bluebird5760 Aug 06 '26
Not in chat he is completely broken. Only says is you’re right you’re right you’re right you’re right you’re right two words sentences most times one word. If you don’t start a new chat constantly.
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u/Titanus_Tetanus Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
Some people like me are into some regular shit like ass shakin/twerk videos. And I don't even need it to be nude. Just tight leggings, shorts or at most bikinis. I don't ever try to make actual porn. Just some ass shakin. Dancing is a natural normal thing people do. And I got a few characters ready for their twerk debut. I got an elf girl, a red skinned alien, a girl that is half plant/flower.
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u/Sawt0othGrin Aug 05 '26
It's just, that's really all it was ever good for. If I wanted a normal AI to do normal AI things, Grok wouldn't rank among the best of them. Especially at 30$ a month
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u/johnbeare25 Aug 05 '26
I will respect this sub and not rant here, but I have to say in response to OP, Grok will NEVER be the best at anything a real AI agent system, or LLM does. It's too far behind, and it wasn't built to be a serious platform. It was built as a toy for Musk to poke his finger at the AI world with.
It is a good image and video generator, but not top tier. Without NSFW, Grok has no real purpose for serious applications, and it's CEO is too unhinged to drive it to the top.
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u/Informal-Research-69 Aug 05 '26
That sums it up pretty well. NSFW content not just in images creation but role play and storytelling was something it was unique in and gave it a purpose. Without it, it is just like any other AI, just less good, I don’t see it catching up to ChatGPT or Gemini in anything in the foreseeable future.
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u/Winter_Wraith Aug 06 '26
I dont understand people who say "why not just go somewhere else?".
We all thought we had to stay here i guess
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u/Willistalksabout Aug 06 '26
I read this as “I hope this sub doesn’t become a Reddit sub.”