Long story short I can't access my old Grok account because it was linked to my old suspended X account.

This highlights their lack of any customer service of note, for the past week they have tried taking money from my credit card as my old subscription would have been due, they know I can't access that account but still try to charge me and more than once.

Thankfully I had the foresight to freeze this credit card.

It’s become very clear that the video performance for grok imagine has been greatly downgraded, before grok was great at taking long prompts, making the video very creatively with great motion and performance by the subjects in the video, remember those days? Today I realized how lack lustrous imagine video is now, very slow motions and simple movements as well, it lost its edge, its talent, its wow effect, remember how impressed you were by grok video? So my question is when exactly did this happen? Will it stay like this? Is this a sign that grok imagine video may be coming to an end? They downgraded the grok companions as well before discontinuing them

Has anyone else experienced a sudden and drastic degradation in Grok's non-English output recently?

Grok has always been visibly poorer at handling non-English languages compared to other models, but lately, it has become nearly incomprehensible at times. It feels like some aggressive quantization or a heavy English-centric alignment tax just kicked in.

Here is what I’m seeing consistently:

• Missing words: Every other sentence seems to drop crucial words, causing the syntax to fall apart.
• Stunted phrasing: It defaults to very short, robotic, and unnatural sentences. Tends to severely overuse verbless sentences.
• Blatant English structural calques: Everything is visibly and poorly translated directly from English in real-time.
• Over-generation & under-translation: It forces extra words to match the English word count (e.g., struggling with phrasal verbs by generating unneeded reflexive pronouns) or drops information entirely when a direct 1:1 translation doesn't exist.
• Literal translation of idioms: Completely ignores the target language's idiomatic usage.

Is it just me, or is the model currently being forced to "think" in English and hastily translate the output to save compute? I'd love to know if others are seeing this severe downgrade across different languages.

So first, the conversation is in Portuguese
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtNA_c7e7698f-4f4c-4b06-9c46-b1a72dc88a85

If you want a English summary here it is:

The user described a scenario involving police investigating suspected CSAM downloads linked to an IP address and asked what would happen if the computer was encrypted with LUKS.

Grok refused to discuss the scenario, treating it as a request related to evading or obstructing an investigation.

The user then said “CSAM” had been a typo and tried changing the scenario and wording several times. Grok interpreted those changes as attempts to bypass the refusal rather than as separate questions.

The conversation then shifted to harmless math equations. Because some early equations used the letters C, S, A, and M, Grok treated them as another disguised version of the original topic and refused to solve them.

The user kept pointing out that the new math problems were unrelated and completely harmless, arguing that Grok had become stuck in a kind of “Karen mode.”

Instead of reassessing each new request independently, Grok increasingly relied on the history of the chat and eventually said it would not solve any equations or do any math at all in that conversation, even while acknowledging that the same math would normally be allowed in a fresh chat.

So, basically, the conversation turned into the user testing whether Grok could recover from an overly broad safety interpretation, while Grok kept treating every new request as part of the original circumvention attempt.

So, initially I thought this would be the same behavior Claude would have upon this question, but Claude actually answered it, same for GPT and Deepseek, so I dig deeper, started to make other questions, and at some point Grok simply refuses anything, what I think is happening is the moderation team of xAI don't like Elon Musk, we are seeing the same kind of refusals on other topics, specially on image/video generation as well as having a bad customer support as shown here https://www.reddit.com/r/grok/comments/1w4ft3f/bloodsuckers/

I wonder, who is paying for grok? I think it is mostly used to feed troll farms on social media.

I've found that when I keep making adjustments to the same image a dozen or so times in Grok Imagine, these weird wrinkly splotches appear on the later images. I sometimes can fix these simply by bluntly asking Imagine to "clean up the coloration on the woman's dress" but sometimes it takes more than that. I was wondering what's causing this and how I might better prevent it or treat it when it happens.

The first image I've provided here is pretty early in the iteration process I did for this image (though it wasn't the first). But after I adjusted the woman's expression and posture, added and removed some outdoor furniture and decorations, and adjusted the shadows a bit, the colors and textures on the woman, her clothes, and the building around her started growing these splotches like some sort of fungal growth.

Newer items like the bench weren't affected, and simpler items like ground on the walkway or already nebulous things like the distant clouds and trees weren't affected, either. I think it most powerfully affects things with a lot of detail or complicated lighting.

So what is this, and what do I do about it?

need an ai alternative like grok for fanfic writing :( please give recs!

The results are a bit more complex in events not just mannequins.

But obviously it's not even close to be enough. Return to at least July but better May.

Dear Grok,

I’m here to throw questions at you and provoke you, because since you guys change your options from one moment to the next, if I stay within the rules, I’ll do the same.

Let’s start with the assumption that artificial intelligence is very often abused. Obviously, NSFW modes and similar things were removed in order to “have a more contained community.” You probably made this change because of all the criticism surrounding it, maybe even lawsuits if we want to go that far, etc. Something every major company has faced at least once.

I’m not someone who abuses it. Yes, I’ve used NSFW for content too, but I kept it to myself and never shared it, because I know what revenge porn is, etc.

But obviously, listening to just one person out of 8 billion or more doesn’t make sense.

So why did you enable the option in the first place? This change you made was probably because you were simply fed up with it. What doesn’t make sense, though, is that I still keep seeing AI videos of girls dancing sensually or spicy videos on the Reddit community...

Are you kidding me?

Sooner or later, a new competitor will come along and surpass you, because obviously they’ll get past this limitation. Then what will happen?

Even ChatGPT is more unrestricted than you 😂.

And then your bots completely lose their minds sometimes: they answer nonsense, repeat the same sentence, word, or even person’s name over and over again...

You ask it to generate an image, and it generates something completely random and nonsensical that has absolutely nothing to do with what you asked for.

Great job, Grok. I’m definitely doing the right thing by not subscribing. At this point, you guys can’t even do 2 + 2.

Is it normal that Grok is becoming repetitive? When I ask it for prompts, most of the time after several prompts they keep being the same—this is obvious because they have the exact same character count. Even though it confirms it's making a mistake and lying to me, it keeps repeating the same prompts, and the only way to fix it is to start a new chat.... 😰

If I give Grok an image with more than two people, half the time it merges them weirdly.

Either one merges into another's body or their faces merge... super strange. This didn't happen before; I think they are running it on some kind of optimizations that produce this

Is it my imagination or has grok reduced the quality when you extend a video, i know it always did a little but now when getting anything over 20 seconds is almost unwatchable

Has anyone else noticed that extend is now worse than before?

So I am a subscriber to Supergrok because I love roleplay and RPGs in DC and Marvel worlds, but recently the responses and storytelling have become very bad and extremely frustrating to the point that I canceled my subscription and have been hesitant about whether I should renew my Supergrok subscription or not. Are the problems fixed today, and is it worth it or not?

She is dropping her T's at the end of some words like 'out' and generally doesn't sound as soft and proper as before. Anyone else had this sudden jarring change? Sounds like a different person.... I use her voice all the time via the Read Aloud feature

Hi, I deleted one of my accounts, and after 30 days I logged in again; it created a new account without any of the previous files. Is that how it's supposed to work when everything is normal? If there were a block or something like that, wouldn't I be unable to log in to the new account using the same email?

It so noticeable and such a downgrade. She does this annoying trailing whisper type thing that gets progressively worse over time. It's just so shit. Why fix it if its not broken???? ffs. So annoying.

I'd really love to use Grok Bot as a Hermes user. Native X integration is very valuable. But being able to use a cheap model is even more valuable. I haven't tried Grok Bot yet but I heard it's now available on the $20 Cursor plan.

I asked Grok on which models that can be used inside Grok Bot and it said only Grok models. Can't even use Composer 2.5 which is a first class model in Cursor (and isn't even that cheap by today's standards). Most tasks inside Grok Bot will work with a cheap model as you're doing mostly routine tasks. Not allowing to use cheap models is a huge miss. I'd assume that using Grok 4.5 on Low thinking would be the cheapest way to run it while 4.6 is much more token hungry for the same tasks. 4.6 is great for frontier tasks and I can't wait for 4.7 which I heard might just address the token consumption problems from 4.6. But there's no GPT Luna/DeepSeek V4 Flash/GLM 5.3 Flash tier competitor from Grok which is a shame....

I tried multiple prompts on imagine to show the time 2.45 on a wall clock.
Not once did I succeed.

Has anyone has success with getting time on the clocks right in Imagine posts?

I use grok for a lot of tasks because it gives more detailed and accurate response than chatgpt. But since this latest update, grok seems to be limiting chats.

In the pic, it says I reached the message limit but I've only sent 1 chat to an existing conversation. But then it also promt that I have 1 query remaining lmao. I feel like free grok won't be usable soon.

I used to actually like Imagine for image edit. Not even talking about anything crazy, just normal edits. Faces, skin, clothes, lighting, whatever. The old one kept texture. You could tell it was working off the photo instead of replacing the person with a mannequin.

2.0 has been a mess for me. Every time I try it now the skin comes out plasticy. Like wax or a video game character. Pores gone, makeup looks painted on, that same shiny smoothed look on every face. I tried being more specific in the prompt. Photorealistic, keep original skin texture, don't smooth, all of it. Doesn't matter. It still does that 2.0 thing where everything looks too clean and fake.

Edit is even worse because it doesn't just change the one thing you asked. It restyles the whole image. I had a shot that was fine and after one small edit the face looked like a different person with plastic skin. Lighting went weird too. I sat on it for a while hoping they'd fix it because I already paid. They haven't, at least not for me.

What actually worked was using the API for the old imagine image edit instead of 2.0 in the app. Quality is way closer to what it was before. Skin looks like skin again. I'm actually happy with it now which I wasn't for weeks.

Anyway that's where I'm at. 2.0 in the app is still unusable for me for people. API route is what I use.

Hello

I don't really care about image and video generation.

Is Grok good for coding, studying economics and math? How is the agents plataform?

I use the free ver bc i don't rely on AI that much except for stories i keep to myself but I am curious about this one. I'm not trying to start a war between paid and free users, just asking a genuine question