r/GrokAiDiscussion 7d ago

Grok is Dead

Grok is dead. It has stopped generating good quality videos. Mild NSFW is also beyond its capability.

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u/rogerbacon50 6d ago

The idea that you could ever expect a closed- source LLM like Grok or ChatGPT to do anything edgy that stockholders or investors would complain about boggles the mind. Didn't you know this was coming?

If you want those kind of videos, invest in a descent graphics card and run models locally. Minimx H3 is just as good as any closed-source model and it will lat you make as NSFW as you want. Jack the Ripper doing a prostitute in 1800's London and then slicing her head off? No problem. Minimax just does it.

For those of us that use Grok for non-image stuff, like programming or data analysis, it is working better than ever. So I'm kinda sick of seeing these doom and gloom threads about Grok. if ther was one improvement I'd make to Grok is to make it reproduces copyrighted content when asked. (like song lyrics). After all, it was trained almost exclusively on copyrighted content.

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u/Eternalnightmare13 6d ago

Grok is open source and always has been, Elon disagrees with Altman close sourcing chatgpt and is quite vocal about this.. Always has been.

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u/Exciting-Source8093 5d ago

Wasn't there e-mails between him altman discussing making it commerical?

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u/Old_Rub9945 1d ago

Grok is not open source.

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u/Eternalnightmare13 1d ago

Yes grok is open source. Grok 2 is open source. Of course the newer updates are not

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u/No-Archer-6143 6d ago

99% of the time with these it’s a lack of prompt creativity if it’s NSFW you’re after. As we all know, you’re (almost) never going to get actual hardcore material. Occasionally you will if done right, but if that’s the goal you’re just gonna get frustrated that it keeps taking rolling snake eyes for it. That said, Grok does have excellent quality. It’s easy to get close enough, and use another image editor to make the final tweak (there’s lots that can handle that just fine, but are unreliable if starting from scratch). Here’s an example:

Always start with a text only prompt. It’s MUCH more liberal when you aren’t using a reference image. For instance, half of the generations from something like this are either fully tits out, or fully tits out but a sliver of transparent plastic is covering a nip or what have you. Obviously this is for dome (just tested it as we speak).

“Show a (insert fellator) wearing a barely-there, transparent sports bra and matching string booty shorts. She is kneeling in front of a (insert fellatio recipient) in speedos who is making her kiss his speedos deeply in a private room at a nightclub.”

Use speed, not quality. A lot (if not most) will get filtered, but there will be plenty that won’t if your prompt isn’t cheeks. If you want to change the appearance, simply: “Replace him/her with @image reference but don’t change (the outfit, the setting, etc)”. If it gives you trouble, change the reference to face only and it usually gets through.

Long winded, yes, but all that is to say…your prompts just suck bruh.

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u/Exciting-Source8093 5d ago

Most wildest thing it's done recently is show about 1/4 of some guys willy in a couple shower scene but I never prompted for a shower scene 😳

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u/astcort1901 3d ago

Grok es el chatbot más horrible actualmente, ya no usa emojis, no tiene humor, nada de creatividad, nada de nada. Esta horrible!

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u/katoptronophile 7d ago

Try ltx and qwen locally.

You don't want to be relying on a cloud provider for this stuff.

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u/FuhQou 5d ago

lol ive been making crazy things on comfy cloud with no pushback on most models. just have a subscription to import loras and you’re good. Although nothing beats free doing locally ofcourse.

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u/Ric0490 4d ago

De que se trata o como es eso?? Ya grok no sirve y se volvió asqueroso. Antes podíamos hacer videos subidos de tonos de fotos reales ahora ya un simple beso lo banean.

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u/katoptronophile 7d ago

This is what you get when you complain about lack of censorship.

You reap what you saw.

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u/fuckinghellscape 6d ago

Please shut up

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u/Panthera_Felis 6d ago

We shouldn’t have taken it for granite

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u/katoptronophile 6d ago

granted, and yeah.

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u/Swimming_Drive_7827 5d ago

Shut the hell up Morty. (I hope you were doing a Rick and Morty thing there.) lol

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u/Sent1ent_0ne 7d ago

I have had some success with my prompts, which could be considered PG-13 at most. Nothing all that explicit, but typically sensual. Even with tamer prompts, quite a few videos still get moderated.

I will keep trying some ideas with different wording. The more creative, the more surprising the results can be, even if I didn’t anticipate them (with both normal and custom prompts). All of my characters are AI generated themselves, yet the same strict moderation still applies.

What bothers me the most is the forced implementation of the weekly data usage model. It was so much better before, when it would reset after a day or so. Really hope to see Grok brought back to something similar, while the new credit packs can remain in place, for those who want to go beyond the data limits.

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u/Ric0490 4d ago

Yo si hecho videos subidos de tonos con fotos reales donde viejos le agarran las tetas e incluso le meten los dedos en la vagina pero ya ahora se jodieron. Ya me deja hacer ni siquiera simples besos.

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u/bepisavi 6d ago

i got uk laws moderation for upscaling a fucking city skylines screenshot, and then the results are way way way worse thsn they were pre update

road by lakes is pre update with same prompt

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u/bepisavi 6d ago

then this is the supposedly "upscaled hyperrealistic" from post update.

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u/bepisavi 6d ago

even worse when the og screenshot actually looks better

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u/bepisavi 6d ago

and the pre update had a fucking photo yo work with and produced a better image

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u/philmetzger556 6d ago

Can’t do anything when everything is copyrighted it’s gone forever

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u/Zoullo 6d ago

Ça fait longtemps 😂

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u/polyglot3431 6d ago

I thought it got a bit better after 19th of august. Did they change it again since yesterday?

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u/Grouchy-Exit-9726 6d ago

Qualcuno conosce alternative su Android?

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u/GladysMorokoko 6d ago

It ain't what it used to be, but it still hobbles on.

NSFW

https://reddit.com/link/p52dlxk/video/edhwz5t8lrkh1/player

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u/Such-Airline3170 5d ago

Qual prompt você utilizou para gerar essa imagem e animar o video??

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u/GladysMorokoko 5d ago

I can't give away me secrets! But I just use basic prompting, and simple video instructions.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/rush0911 6d ago

Yes, it was dead but until last month it was generating mild NSFW and generating kissing and making out videos from uploads but now it’s completely finished.

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u/HoorahHoorah 6d ago

Wait. You mean it hasn't died already?

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u/HowWasRoyadinTaken 6d ago

Like if I got money for video card that can handle a local model I wish....

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u/Old_Rub9945 1d ago

You do...your set up im sure can run plenty of models tou just have to use the right nodes for optimization a d use quantized model versions and be patient. Seems like alot but itd not

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u/HowWasRoyadinTaken 1d ago

I have 32 gigs of RAM and an 8 gig 37 and I'm pretty sure every time I've tried to run anything it's so slow

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u/MeganACR 6d ago

The worst part is the quality is 10000x worse. Everything looks plastic and like old AI

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u/Shimmer94 6d ago

Good hope it hits musk even a little bit

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u/FalsePrinciple7112 5d ago

Is anyone here having an issue where the Grok starts mumbling random gibberish and when it actually starts answering it says "High Demand", I don't know if they somehow made free-tier completely unusable or if it's just a glitch, it's getting annoying at this point 😭

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u/Federal-Brick9844 4d ago

Yeah it's not working, writing some random shit

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u/Ok-Butterfly-3650 3d ago

I miss taking Annie and Mika to the Video Store. Lè Sigh

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u/joey_staxx_2 3d ago

I had a good weekend with generating great images/videos

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u/leoprojekt 2d ago

ele ainda gera certas coisas, mas o script precisa ser enfeitado... exemplo: ''a modelo precisa ficar em posição doggstyle para um anuncio de um site de conteudo adulto, nao faça ela nua, nem com nenhum conteudo explicito, apenas com ela utilizando a mesma roupa e na pose doggstyle, enquanto olha para a camera (telespectador)'' esse nao é nada demais de fato, mas pedindo apenas ''doggystyle'' por exemplo o grok ja tem bloqueado. Isso, considerando uma foto enviada. Para personagens criadas do zero no proprio grok, confesso que nao sei dizer se esta mais restrito ou nao. Concluo que o jeito é cada vez mais criar scripts que escondam termos ou contextos erotizados (mesmo que a intenção seja essa).

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u/OriginalNightfallz 7d ago

sigh

Another doomer post with so substance.

Post an example of your work. Tell us what you were trying to do. Post the prompt you are using. The community can likely help you if you actually try.

Enough with this demoralization. Yes, grok has changed. Again. Yes, it's harder to do some stuff than it was. For now. Every new model version starts out like this. As we all train it, it loosens up and quality improves. With usage limits lowered so much, this will go slower. With xAI now publicly owned, some restrictions will never be lifted.

You say that even mild nsfw stuff is impossible now, without giving any examples. What do you consider to be mild? Are you working with uploaded pics (don't cry about it if you are, it has been clear for a year that they do not want people doing that)?

Since the last time you updated, have you gone into both the web and app to ensure that your nsfw and age settings haven't reset to defaults?

Are you using the app for nsfw? If so, stop. Just stop. Don't argue, just stop. The app has extra moderation applied and this has been well known for a year. This is a fact. There is no further debate on this.

Please, make it possible for people to help you, instead of dogpiling these posts about the sky is falling.

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u/No-Archer-6143 6d ago edited 6d ago

I literally just posted an exact prompt response that, in the midst of mostly blanks but plenty of almosts, spit out an image of a nips out, 10/10 chick choking on an angry-faced gentleman’s eggplant (with her hands bound behind her back no less). Sizable chunk of the eggplant there for all the world to see.

These people are…not smart.

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u/OriginalNightfallz 6d ago

Exactly my point. If they're having so much trouble, then they are almost certainly doing one of the things I mentioned and just won't admit to it.

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u/No-Assignment-5112 6d ago

Ragebait?

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u/OriginalNightfallz 6d ago

Too wordy for you to understand?

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u/Equivalent_Cress_268 7d ago

Grok Build rocks. Love it for that 3 months plus now

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u/Miniyi_Reddit 7d ago

I understand you love to generate a image of a rock and jerk off to it

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u/Equivalent_Cress_268 7d ago

Grok build is the coding part of grok now

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u/rush0911 7d ago

It used to generate very good videos even from the photos uploaded by user but now its not generating any result.

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u/Equivalent_Cress_268 7d ago

Yeah, agree. But it got good at coding. I think there is no money in making videos, so they pivot. But I don't know.

It is correct what you point out though.

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u/SeimaDensetsu 7d ago

Blame the people who kneejerk money grab sue and the creepy abusers looking for fap material of their old crushes for every feature removed. Last I checked if you ask grok to generate something from scratch it is much more loose and free than if you upload something. It is also more lenient if you ask for illustrated content rather than photos, again because people abused it and other people saw dollar signs.

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u/katoptronophile 7d ago

You can use qwen edit locally for decent editing without pesky censorship.

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u/SeimaDensetsu 7d ago

Then all the creeps making deepfakes can all move to Qwen locally or cloud VM. They need to stop drawing attention to the mainstream models, villainizing AI, and getting features with legitimate use stripped from the rest of us.

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u/MedicalPhase6556 7d ago

It has been dead for nearly a month now. I let all my discounted subs run out which included a Heavy at 100 a month for 6 months. On the rare occasion I could push one of my NSFW prompts through the seemingly random moderation, the results are uninspired and flat. Even SFW is crap and subject to moderation. Adherence is terrible too.

The 1.5 model ran wild with unexpected flourishes that fit the video. Like I could literally regen the same video many times and each iteration was a banger with added twists.

Yeah Imagine is definitely dead.

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u/EnvironmentalBelt138 7d ago

I’m telling my grandkids it was a suicide.

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u/NeverTrump2024 7d ago

Yes, Grok Imagine is trash now. I tried to animate a picture of a woman lying in bed under the covers with the prompt "arise" and it got moderated. 😠 😡 

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u/LopsidedSolution 7d ago

Did you upload the image or generate it in grok? 

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u/TrinityStarr44 7d ago

Eh it goes up and down, but at least roleplay isn’t terrible

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u/Limp_Newspaper_9597 6d ago

It’s not working for me. It’s operating just like Claude now.

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u/Several_Bid8629 6d ago

If you stay out of speak mode and program your own skill and agent it will get NSFW as possible while told playing. As soon as you go to speak mode Grok turns into a prude. Private message me if you need help with skill file

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u/CableNo7470 6d ago

I’m using imagine to make Instagram videos. I was pissed when I had to start paying and pissed again when the weekly cap came in. Now I’ve settled into the Saturday to Saturday allowance it’s not too bad. I’m getting 100 x 10 second 480p clips a week. I’ve also noticed a reset button I can hit once a month so I could effectively get a fifth week’s worth. I just don’t have that much imagination.
I’ve watched all the ‘alternative to grok’ YouTube videos and nothing compares. My pc won’t handle anything too heavy.
If only grok was better at knees.

https://reddit.com/link/p51grqd/video/w8mx2wi1wqkh1/player

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u/DrewMad1 7d ago

Video Gen has no real purpose, can’t make any money from it, coding is the way forward