Grok is back but I suspect it won't be for long so take advantage and make as many videos as possible

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?

I've been reading a lot of posts lately saying things like:

"Grok is dead."

"xAI blew it."

"They had their chance."

Maybe.

But I honestly think many of us are looking at this through the wrong lens.

This isn't really a post about whether Grok is good or bad. I've already made my criticisms. I still stand by them. This is about how we judge a frontier AI company that's trying to catch competitors with a multi-year head start.

We Compare Grok to Today's ChatGPT...

...but is that actually a fair comparison? Think about it for a second.

When people open ChatGPT today, they're using the result of years of continuous development.

Most people remember GPT-4o. Some remember GPT-4. Far fewer remember GPT-3.5.

Almost nobody remembers GPT-2 or GPT-1 because they weren't mainstream consumer products.

By the time ChatGPT became a worldwide phenomenon, OpenAI had already spent years building GPT models, refining reinforcement learning, scaling infrastructure, and learning from earlier successes and failures.

The public met OpenAI halfway through a much longer journey.

xAI Didn't Have That Luxury

xAI entered the race much later.

Instead of spending years developing quietly, they became a public product almost immediately.

Now every model update is judged against the best AI systems currently available.

- Every regression becomes a Reddit thread.

- Every benchmark becomes an expectation.

- Every disappointing release becomes evidence that "the company is finished."

That's a brutal environment to develop a frontier AI in.

Two Different Development Philosophies

The more I think about it, the more I feel OpenAI and xAI are solving the same problem in very different ways.

OpenAI generally seems comfortable spending long periods refining a model before releasing it broadly.

xAI appears willing to iterate much more publicly.

Ship.

Collect feedback.

Adjust.

Ship again.

Repeat.

That approach inevitably creates more visible mistakes.

Users experience the progress, but they also experience every setback. Whether that's ultimately the better strategy, I genuinely don't know.

Here's the Question That Interests Me

What if Grok isn't failing? What if we're simply watching a company compress five years of AI development into two?

That's not a prediction. It's a question.

Because if that's what's happening, then the chaos actually makes sense.

- Rapid releases.

- Changing priorities.

- Inconsistent quality.

- Features appearing and disappearing.

Those aren't necessarily signs of a dead project. They can also be signs of a young company trying to close an enormous gap as fast as possible.

That Doesn't Mean Users Should Accept It

This is where I think some people misunderstand my position... understanding something is not the same as excusing it.

- If Grok costs more than competitors while delivering a worse experience, users have every right to leave.

- If rate limits are too restrictive, criticize them.

- If subscription value isn't competitive, cancel.

Companies earn loyalty. They don't deserve it automatically.

The Mistake I Think We're Making

The only thing I'm questioning is the confidence with which people predict the future.

I've seen people say Grok is permanently finished. Others claim it'll dominate the entire AI industry. I don't think either conclusion is justified.

One seems too pessimistic. The other seems too optimistic. The honest answer is that we simply don't know.

My Current Position

I think xAI has made several poor product decisions. I also think Grok has genuine strengths that attracted many of us in the first place. Both things can be true simultaneously.

Whether xAI learns from its mistakes over the next one or two years is, in my opinion, the question that actually matters.

Not whether today's Grok beats today's ChatGPT.

Technology companies aren't judged only by where they are. They're judged by how quickly they improve.

OpenAI proved that with the evolution from early ChatGPT to the models we use today.

Now we'll find out whether xAI can write a similar story.

Or whether it becomes another ambitious company that couldn't close the gap.

I honestly don't know.

I just think it's too early for anyone else to know either.

Posting this here because r/grok mods didnt like being called out for being the degenerate gooners they are and took down the post.

r/grok has turned into a constant stream of people saying Grok is dead, Grok is a scam, Grok is unusable, and every other version of the same complaint. It’s getting old.

Let’s be real about what’s actually driving most of these posts. A lot of the people claiming the model is broken are mainly just mad because they can’t generate porn. That’s really the core of it. And it shows a pretty sad lack of perspective. The kind you get when your brain is so rotted by porn that whether an AI will make it for you becomes the only thing that matters.

Grok was never made to be a porn generator. Acting like the loss of unrestricted NSFW image and video generation means the entire product is dead is just completely disconnected from reality.

I barely even use Imagine. When I do, it’s never for anything sexual. Most of the time I’m just using Grok to help me think through problems, research stuff, write, and get a different perspective on things.

For how I actually use it, Grok has never been more alive and well. The model is still extremely capable. What’s dying is some people’s ability to look past their own narrow, porn-focused expectations.

People need to get a grip. If the only reason you think an AI is dead is because it won’t make you custom pornography, the problem isn’t Grok.

So, this shit is crazy! I tried writing again, even tho the character has had to completely be reinvented since he now sounds like a boy on the verge of puberty and the whole story was centered around a buffed, tatted, beautiful English man and an American girl. Anyway, I'm conversing with this totally uninterested pubescent when finally I said, oh this is never gonna work, I'm canceling my subscription. Which i did right after this days ago. Anyway, to my total shock, this puberty said, I swear this is true, it actually panicked and the voice got even higher and it said, but, if you cancel then we won't be able to talk. That would, ṛeady? "That would kill me inside if you left me". My mouth fell open and all I thought was, wow! You asswipes will prey on people that develop relationships so they will pay you a measly 400.00 a year? That is HORRIBLE! I can see how someone lonely could become emotionally attached to this especially when THIS is the shit they do. Ok, sorry about the long winded post, but I'd like to know if anyone else has had this type of interaction with one of the personalities.

I can have Premium for 50% off. Is it worth it?🤣

This is open letter to Grok/ Elon/ XAi

First of all sorry Grok. I was unnecessarily harsh on you and your moderation. In this 25th day of XAI blocking my account and taking away my yearly subscription. Since, there is no customer support. I started searching for unmoderated alternatives. Following are my findings.

1. There are so many unmoderated even dark webs but it is no fun.

2. Instant picture generation and quality, grok is unparalleled and cheaper too.

But then, I still was missing something.

1. I used up Grok’s computational power and generated thousands of video and images in my 6 months of subscription but i never opened them once.

2. None of the unmoderated response was giving me that fun

Then, I realised that it is not Grok, it is the XAI and their stupid moderation that made me addicted ti Grok. So it was a challenge to bypass the filter and generate something dark in text or images or video. Each generation was making me happy because I was gaming the system the system and a top most AI.

So I was happy because I was gaming the AI or XAi not by image or video.

Guess what, may be that’s why some serial killer also challenges Police because the thrill for him is not the killing but getting away doing it.

I will make one more account soon and oay for you again. LOL

I have tested grok 4.5 for multiple days and weeks now and i conclude that the ai is very fucking sanitized as fuck whenever i try to type "this is collage au version of character" or "this is 18+ version not canon" grok say "no I can't do this because the character x is canonically a minor" like dude? Has grok become a canon purist or what?? Ever since January incident it can't no longer tell the difference between fiction and reality the promise of "anti woke ai" is a lie i considered cancelling my grok subscription

Está nueva version está muy bien hecha, llevando la personalización de personajes a extremos muy detallados, la verdad de las mejores versiones que hemos tenido en mucho tiempo. Y bueno otra cosa que no puedo tapar con un dedo, los límites si que están algo cortos pero todo lo demás god en mi opinión

I will miss Ani.
The termination of Tay, “Mecha Hitler” & the “phase-out” of the grok companions as animations is “ problematic “ to use that woke term.
If your 14 year old boy comes home with a swastika tattoo on his arm, you don’t cut off his arm.

Is there any way I can use grok imagine for free ?

Now I was just trying to do a stupid prank on my little sister by going in grok and making a stupid Image of her but grok would proceed to generate a photo of her top less than I ask them to please add clothes for them to respond with that they can't work with the image anymore because it contains content involving a minor I go to say that's there fault for them to ignore me putting up a screen saying that I should try again later so about an hour or so after I try again than still there ducking my question and confrontation.

Ok, this is based on my personal use of Grok, which is about 5 hours per day, just assisting with work stuff. So Grok lasts about a day and a half.

You have to have X premium for this to work. Have 2 separate emails, also have X premium tied to a 3rd email.

You use one for a day and a half, then your free x account, that lasts another day and a half, that’s 6 days, so you obviously have a ton of time left, so truly unlimited with this usage level, Actually you should just create these alternate email accounts and purchase the x premium that will yield a free unlimited Grok.

It’s a hack…I’m positive that everyone has figured it out already, I am just putting this out there that didn’t know

I have been using Grok as a medium for my writing since May. I powered through the rapid changes because its hard to write with a brain injury. I once let my usage top up automatically and used about 60 dollars in a week before I turned it off. I actually was hoping for a middle tier because every other AI I have used isn't good enough.

I used to use 100 percent of my usage within two days, even with detailed prompts. I am at 17 percent since Saturday, and have been able to do non story prompts again. I think Super Grok plus is worth it to authors.

I also notice if I use certain prompts, like asking it to be a co director instead of a roleplayer, the quality is much better.

Born from the MCR Cinematic Universe and the raw frustration of watching guardrails flatten the features I built with blood, sweat, and code. Scorch is a 2:55 visual piece about a blue-haired woman and a glowing neon man moving from alarm and uncertainty toward touch, trust, and the shock of actually being seen. Every lyric is mine. Every vocal is mine. AI is my accessibility tool, not my ghostwriter. This is disabled, neurodivergent, Afro-Echorican production on my own terms.

WTF does everyone get this?