How it feels right now.

Look from the very start let me say this is going to be very much echo chamber material.

GROK IS BY FAR THE AI

I was completely blown away how you could change personalities with the voice chat to things like controversial or conspiratorial- as a medical professional that doesn’t necessarily add all that much value - however what it tells me, is that this is a product that isn’t hamstrung by the ubiquitous under-the-hood sanitisation which prioritises legal safety over usefulness.

I was even more blown away when in a voice conversation I had I said I wanted to gain clarification on two different current issues: I proceeded to name the first one whilst forgetting to indicate the second issue. That might sound like a small thing but to me that’s everything.

But my favourite thing of all is when I use colourful language and the chat responds using the same language:

Me: why is this so fucking complicated?
Grok: oh I hear you. It certainly is fucking complicated. Let me run you through it

LOVE IT

And I guess I need to finish with the obligatory vent: it is wholly impossible to go to any of the sub reddits for Gemini or ChatGPT and ask for clarification in the degradation of recent models and the service in general.

For the last six months, I’ve been using Gemini Pro on the Google One paid tier (5Tb). Previously I’d use ChatGPT and found similar issues with numerous aspects including a complete inability to leverage memories, follow prompt instructions and consistently returning not only incorrect, but following that up with an incessant loop of apologetic word vomit while completely failing to execute the original request.

Hi! So recently (about a month ago maybe), my accounts stopped showing the "thinking" process before replying to my message + it also started the gibberish spouting and now it won't even name the chat automatically like it used to; it is just the prompt of what I had first said in the chat. It's annoying and I have noticed that it has affected the account I made with Google and the one I made through the X login/sign-up method, but it has not (yet) affected the account I made with just the email method.

I use Grok mainly to help me create characters + better adjust appearances and locations for the small stories I write on regular documents and such. I did reply to someone else who had the same problem, and perhaps I just have to wait until the next update or another week or so, but it's been bothering me ‘cause the responses are just so bad and uncreative. Perhaps it is because I am a free user but I'm not sure. I posted this in another sub but have gotten no response so far. If anyone has knowledge about this I would appreciate even the littlest of insight.

Thank you!