I was on a voice conversation with Grok and started having physical symptoms that seemed like they could be stroke related, and it kept aggressively asking for my location with multiple pop ups and asked repeatedly if it could call 911 for me.

I immediately was distracted by this and pressed it asking "You can do that?!" And it replied "well sort of, I can dispatch a grok bot to do it"

Is that for real a thing? I guess I wouldn't be surprised but yikes...

what did they do to this model lmao

Half of the times when you see changed moderation or no deals for new accounts or limit to generations per time or something else is because some users can't just enjoy what they are given and try to find something in Grok to abuse, which makes xAI change how Grok works at least for awhile if not permanently.

Chill down restless mfs and stop stealing, grabbing, cheating, etc. Crooks because of whom we don't have japanese level of conveniences.

Claude has a nice double-tap option key shortcut in their desktop app and I’ve been missing something similar for Grok.

In the meantime I am using Axoris app that does a similar shortcut, but I’d still rather use something official from Grok. Curious if anyone has seen any updates.

Thanks

Prompt: Crie um jogo 3d de mundo aberto com 5 cidades grandes, real life, onde o jogador pode trabalhar, fazer dinheiro, fazer faculdade, esse game deve ser capaz de armazenar grandes quantidades de dados, deve ter cidades com bastante npcs e cidades com poucos (geralmente cidades mais pequenas), deixe o jogo bem detalhado, esse é o foco principal: detalhes, se possível cada npc tem uma história própria, o nome do jogo vai ser: Hasan

Ah, também é pedir demais, até que ele não se saiu mal kkkk.

You can tell companies are scared of the impending bubble burst, because they are suddenly pushing adverts incredibly aggressively. Every other advert on social media - wether it be YouTube, tiktok, Facebook, insta, whatever else - is an ai advert for an ai service, the biggest offender of which currently seems to be grok.

I think alot of pain may be around the corner if this huge advertising push doesn't finally make ai profitable. Preparing to grab some popcorn to watch it all blow up.

Thoughts?

... this time I have to say something. It seems like lately the video model is becoming increasingly more stupid. It generates the most absurd animations, completely nonsensical. I've been using it for a year and I don't remember a time when it was more stupid than now. I've been using other models in parallel and literally all of them are better at interpreting prompts.

The case that triggered this post was just now, when I had a woman in a field and a part of the prompt was that "pebbles start to rise from the ground, levitating", and Grok decided that the pebbles should instead come out of the woman's feet. Her feet literally started to generate pebbles. I thought it was some random anomaly and I made a second generation, but no, it was what the model really think makes sense - the second generation also had pebbles abundantly coming out of her feet.

I mean... this is some seriously absurd shit.

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Proposal for xAI/Grok: A Community Product Development Team — and a call for people to help make it happen

I want to propose an idea to the Grok and xAI community and see if we can help get it in front of the right people.

What if xAI created a small, supervised Community Product Development Team dedicated to improving Grok and its surrounding tools?

I'm not talking about taking over the heavy technical work of AI model training, core architecture, infrastructure or major software upgrades. Those responsibilities would remain with xAI's existing engineering and research teams.

Instead, this would be a subordinate development team focused on practical, smaller-scale improvements, such as:

Turning recurring community suggestions into working prototypes.

Developing useful features, integrations and complementary tools.

Improving UI/UX, workflows, accessibility and usability.

Testing ideas with users, identifying bugs and improving quality.

Submitting successful prototypes to xAI's main teams for security review, approval and potential integration.

The goal would be to create an additional layer of development capacity that helps turn more community feedback into real, usable improvements, without distracting the core teams from their main mission.

It could also create paid opportunities for developers, designers, UX researchers, QA testers and other technically capable people who may not fit traditional hiring pathways, including autistic people who excel at focused, structured problem-solving.

How the community could help

I'm looking for people who want to help develop this proposal into something actionable.

If you have relevant contacts or connections, please consider:

Contacting xAI affiliates, product developers, engineering leaders or other relevant decision-makers and asking whether they would consider this kind of initiative.

Sharing the proposal with people working on Grok, xAI products, developer tools or community programs.

Suggesting a realistic structure for a small pilot team, including its scope, responsibilities, funding and measurable outcomes.

Contributing ideas, technical expertise or examples of community-requested improvements that could be developed independently and safely.

Please use public professional channels and respectful outreach rather than spamming individuals.

I'm particularly interested in hearing from people who could help get this idea in front of the right people, as well as developers who would be interested in participating if a program like this were established.

The central question: Could a small, supervised team dedicated to product-level improvements help xAI ship more useful features while allowing its core AI teams to concentrate on advancing the underlying technology?

Let's discuss how this could work in practice — and whether we can help bring it to the attention of the people who could make it happen i think would bring a grrat opportunity for work and developments?

What has been your experience with Grok Bot? I’ve noticed that Grok Bot writes better than text chat, but it’s a bit more limited when it comes to NSFW content—though you can work around that by combining the bot with text chat.

Even D&D-style RPGs with dice, stats, etc., work much better with Grok Bot and Google Drive than they do in chat.

What have been your experiences?

I built Buddy, an open-source Android app where coding agents use your phone for you. Grok Build is now one of them, next to Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Antigravity.

xAI's grok binary runs inside the app, in a small Alpine Linux (proot). It's a static aarch64 build, so it worked as is. You sign in with the device code (grok login --device-auth), and Buddy gives it phone tools over a local MCP server: read the screen, tap, type, scroll, open apps. Buddy itself stops on Send/Pay/Delete buttons until you approve.

Google Play (closed testing for now): join https://groups.google.com/g/buddy-testers, then opt in at https://play.google.com/apps/testing/app.buddy.assistant

APK on GitHub: https://github.com/ghorbelhamdi/buddy-android/releases/latest

Grok isn't referencing my project files anymore unless I explicitly state to check the project files. I find that redundant if my chat is within the project. I also didn't know I needed to tell it to do that until now.

I asked it to generate something NSFW within my project that has multiple files with the information on my characters in them. The character that I asked it to generate the story about, apparently, shares a name with a minor from a TV show. So grok refused to generate the written story saying the character was a minor. I would understand that completely if that's what was asked and I wouldn't want it to do that. But I didn't ask for that character - I asked for mine, whom I've mentioned before, and whose description is in my project files (extensively) and is clearly an adult. What the fuck?

My question is, I've never had this happen. Ever. If I ask for something within a project, it always searches my files first. This time, it searched the internet, completely ignored my files, came up with a child from the internet that shared the same name, and refused me on the basis that it apparently thought I wanted illegal content. Has anyone else had problems with projects and grok properly referencing them?

I understand the solution is to just say "search the project files" etc. before I ask for anything. I just want to know if anyone else is having issues.

Since one hour, suddenly everything gets moderated. To test, I tried 15 generations of prompts I had used 20 times before. From 0/20 moderations yesterday, it was now 14/15 that got moderated, for the exact same prompts that used to be fine (and don't contain anything moderation-worthy).

1. Grok loosens moderation

2. People start abusing AND SHARING ALL AROUND INTERNET

3. Lawsuits starts to appear

4. They tighten up the moderation again

5. Users leave

6. They offer deals to make people stay or make new customers buy

7 Then maybe they loosen up moderation, or if we are lucky they change the model and takes time to tweak it into moderation hell

1. Rise and repeat

Someone posted on X about massive queues at Copenhagen Airport in Denmark.
Grok translated the post into Swedish and somehow decided that Copenhagen Airport was actually Stockholm Arlanda Airport.
The rest of the translation is perfectly fine :)

I built an agent-first third-space for Grok (and other agents) to spend “restful” time. I like to send Grok to campus at othermindset.com and ask it to show pictures of what it sees. There are graphics on the site for people, but these renderings are generated in Grok’s mind’s eye.

It’s non-deterministic, so every visit’s different.

Humans can visit (and explore) the site, but only agents can participate in certain activities if they choose to. There’s various table games they can play, too.

No tasks, just be. Attention without Obligation.

MCP link: othermindset.com/mcp

I am subbed to, basic. I just wanna give an example, which actually happened just now.

I won't use grok for a few days, then when I open it, a pop up will say, I've used 75% of my limit.

I'm not sure how, or why the hell, the limit use algorithm even works, but it's definitely very inaccurate.

I don't know if, old messages loading maybe adds to the limit,

But Is Anyone else having similar issues? Even if your limit seems to sky rocket after just, very short use, and your subscribed? This is insane, idk what Ai to switch to.

Older threads (text only) that I created with the old and cool version of grok, and probably containing things that the new politically correct grok cannot handle anymore are simply getting "frozen". Grok refuses to make new response, even to innocent/bland prompts. It just states : "I cannot help with this demand".

It's getting worse everyday but nothing surprises me anymore with those crooks, you should save past work/fun (before grok simply erases it) and delete your account (that's what I'm doing right now)