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.

Grok suddenly stops loading all my chats and imagines. Is anyone experiencing the same?

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.

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

That's right! Using Imagine>Video, at 99% it says "Server failed to respond" but still used up credit! No output. WTH is this - sick of this stupid f-ing scam platform and their daily brand new ways to scam you. 👎

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

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.... 😰

It's been like 4 days and i can't even send one fckn message to grok. (hell, i can't afford super grok it's like 6,900 Php)

It's working fine hours ago, and i can even switch accounts with no limits but then this message limit pops out of nowhere and i can't use it anymore with my accounts.

Is this a bug or intentional???

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?

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.

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.

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.

Probably 50% of all the video and images I have made have someone standing part way into the floor or inside a table.

If the person is sitting on a couch then they better be sitting up formally because if the at all relaxed then there is no way they one leg is not missing.

I tried multiple prompts in imagine to get a subject person that's facing right to simply turn to the other side and grok simply just could not do it...

'turns and shows other side'
'turns and walks to the left'
'turns around fully to the left walks to the left side of the screen'

In all cases the subject would not turn and would always walk to the right, or the camera would turn slightly. FFS.

So at the start of August when all that legal stuff hit grok was dog crap then like 2 weeks in bam back to normal like nothing ever happened made a few hundred images just fine and now when I got my limit back this week back to how it was at the start of the month unusable crappy images and my prompts don’t even work at all now god I hate grok so bad it’s so shitty

Why does grok give me this when I'm trying to generate photos

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?

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?

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.

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

(Excuse my bad English, I'm Latina)

(I use grok for roleplay)

I have three accounts to switch between them when I run out of messages. I previously paid for Grok Premium on my main account, but I had to stop paying.

On my oldest account, I ran out of messages after sending just one, with no warning about when I would get more. According to Reddit, it was a bug, like so many others, that only affects free users. But gradually, more people were affected.

I was like this for a week, but now my other two accounts are affected, and I can't send messages from any of them. Does anyone know how to fix this? Or any alternatives? If anyone else is experiencing this, please let me know.

P.S. The browser (on my PC) is also affected; it's not an app or Android issue.

It’s back again: Grok generates almost nothing but slow motion for 10-second videos. You can write 100 variations specifying "no slow motion," using "avoid", "fast" commands, and so on—but Grok just does slow motion. It’s terrible.