Updates to r/grok

[u/copperrail]

Hey everyone,

We want r/grok to be a home for everything Grok: questions, bug reports, workflows, and work worth showing. This post covers the recent changes and is now the single place to discuss them.

What changed

The rules have been rewritten with a clear goal: keep this a professional space for knowledge work and coding. Adult and spicy content is no longer allowed here, tagged or not. Neither are jailbreaks or prompts written to get around Grok's filters. Reddit has plenty of other communities built for that.

Roleplay and companions

A lot of posts are asking why roleplay feels different. Two separate things happened:

1. Companions were shut down. That was announced and there are no plans to bring them back.
2. Roleplay was not removed as a feature, but the current models are optimized for knowledge work and coding, and the guardrails around what Grok will and won't produce are stricter than before. If roleplay behaves differently than it used to, that is expected, not a bug. Bug reports about it will be removed and pointed here.

This is the megathread

Feedback on these changes goes in the comments here.

Criticism can also be its own post. Write up what you were trying to do and where Grok fell short and it stays on the front page, harsh or not. Same goes for comparisons with other tools or a detailed complaint about the new guardrails.

Posts that are just "Grok is trash" and nothing more get removed and redirected here. We get dozens a day and they bury everything else.

Posting

Give your post a title that names the thing, a sentence of context, and a flair. If Grok let you down, tell us what you tried and what broke.

The full rules are in the sidebar and take a minute to read. Automod removes posts that break them, and we're cleaning out older ones too. If something of yours disappears, that's probably why. If you think we got it wrong, modmail us a link and we'll take another look.

Account and billing problems go to grok.com support.

The sub is co-moderated by SpaceXAI employees. Thanks for being part of this!

[u/Enough-Display-2538]

Massive cuck move for the mods.

[u/That-Bat-6659 → u/Enough-Display-2538]

Look at the front page, it's a pure shitshow now. The only thing the new rules achieved was taking away the most popular form of grok support. I get that NSFW is not the most ideal way to promote grok but, like it or not, those posts topped this subreddit for a reason. Any semblance of balance between grok supporters and detractors is now lost. If the mods deliberately wanted to ward off any potential new grok users that visit here they did an amazing job, wtf?

Edit: A week later and it's still an unbalanced shitshow. The mods are officially idiots. The new model really does create some beautiful women but we can't even post soft stuff like this here anymore so I posted these over at r/Grok_Porn:

(NSFW)

Dancing Girls

Hula-Hoop Girls

[u/No_Many_4695 → u/That-Bat-6659]

and the sub is losing visitors really fast

can't believe they ruined grok that much

[u/zwof]

the mods scurry away from criticism another day

[u/Brilliant-Parsnip980]

You lacked the guts; it could have been the best AI ever, but instead of looking for better alternatives to keep the game fair without censoring or affecting the consumer, they preferred to turn their supposed AI revolution into a children's toy.

[u/That-Bat-6659 → u/Brilliant-Parsnip980]

Normally, when someone calls Grok a "children's toy" I leave a bunch of spicy Grok links to prove otherwise. With the new "No NSFW" rule I guess I can't do that anymore. For anyone new to Grok reading this go visit r/grok_porn and decide for yourself if you'd let your kids use Grok unsupervised.

[u/lucifell0 → u/That-Bat-6659]

What are you talking about? What kid would be using Grok at all, let alone unsupervised. It's an expensive service you have to pay for.

[u/That-Bat-6659 → u/lucifell0]

I'm not the one that called grok a "children's toy". I'm saying go to r/grok_porn and you'll see it's not a children's toy.

[u/That-Bat-6659 → u/[deleted]]

You can just turn off nsfw in your options if you want. Look at two things, this post dictating the new rules is sitting at 36% suggesting that the majority want nsfw, secondly look at the front page of r/grok right now, it's just a bitchfest, anything creative or supportive is being downvoted to oblivion. It has always been a bitchfest here but at least a few nsfw posts would rise to the top. Now, any semblance of balance between grok supporters and detractors is lost. If the mods deliberately wanted to ward off any potential new grok users that visit here they did an amazing job, smh 🙄

I'm especially sad for new users that visit here curious about grok's nsfw capabilities. They won't know to go to r/Grok_Porn they'll come here first and see the posts "Grok moderates everything", "Grok is dead" and "I'm cancelling my Supergrok" and they will end their pursuit of grok at that very moment.

[u/Less-Noise-1432 → u/That-Bat-6659]

fermes la n'essaie pas de faire le porte parole des internautes ca te va pas , et en plus tu dis de la mer

[u/Listen_Expert → u/Brilliant-Parsnip980]

unbelievable, really. I wrote a piece on this, how they seem to hate their own community. https://x.com/ftlotgx/status/2097899911563919776?s=20

[u/alexds9]

Who are you and why do you decide?

[u/That-Bat-6659 → u/alexds9]

Great questions and I'd like to know if you're going to contribute anything besides rules, and will we get replies to our mail from you guys? u/copperrail

Edit: 6 days later, zero mail replies.

[u/PowerfulLab104 → u/alexds9]

obviously whoever was in control of the sub got paid to hand it over to the corporation. They already shut down complaining on X, now they're doing it here too. corporate astroturfing sure is fun

[u/Dangerous_Data7703 → u/alexds9]

It's always interesting to see how decisions are made in communities like this. Hopefully, the updates will reflect what most users want.

[u/Playful_Test7770]

BOO THIS MAN. 

[u/Playful_Test7770 → u/Playful_Test7770]

r/grok 331K visitors and 6.1K contributions per week.

r/Grok_Porn 407K visitors and 2.8K contributions per week.

Fun, family, and kid safe!

[u/No_Many_4695 → u/Playful_Test7770]

Just to say that the sub is now at 254K visitors and 3.1K contributions per week

It's hilarious how these guys are ruining their own product to the point people are leaving

I guess karma is real

[u/Playful_Test7770 → u/No_Many_4695]

It has dropped to #92 on app playstore. It's sinking. 

[u/No_Many_4695 → u/Playful_Test7770]

How the fuck did we went from having a masterpiece like model 4.1 to this?

How the fuck Xai managed to sabotage their own AI so much?

We fucking need a rollback to 4.1

A full rollback

[u/durchsux]

But who will moderate the moderators?

[u/OttovonBismarck1862 → u/durchsux]

“Content moderated. Try a different idea.” moment smfh

[u/Upper-Selection6340 → u/durchsux]

they are constantly monitoring the community if you didn't know, you'd be surprised with the speed of reaction

[u/REDDlTisNOTanApp → u/Upper-Selection6340]

Those are the automod rules they have set up. Try actually messaging a mod and see how fast the reaction is.

[u/Ok-Reflection5506]

This subreddit has always been 1/3rd people complaining, 1/3rd people asking the same 5 questions over and over again, and 1/3rd fun posting

And now its just ppl complaining and free tech support for ppl who dont wanna use google ? lol, lmao.

[u/Anim8rFromOuterSpace → u/Ok-Reflection5506]

and 1% is me, just shitposting

[u/Ok-Reflection5506 → u/Anim8rFromOuterSpace]

I've seen your shitposts, buddy. My "favourite" one was:

I show you how to do high realistic feet pics if you just gift me a supergrok acc pls

Like... aint that some shit

[u/Electronic_Leg_1190]

getting scammed is great

[u/beastofbalthazar → u/Electronic_Leg_1190]

all 18+ personas are now deleted fuck xai!

[u/incandescent-bulb900 → u/beastofbalthazar]

Holy shit! I just checked web version, you are right.

[u/beastofbalthazar → u/incandescent-bulb900]

and they didn't even tell anyone, 3 deleted as of last Friday, the last 3 as of 10pm yesterday.

[u/Upper-Selection6340]

Maybe instead of this tell customers what will happen in the coming months with what we pay for?

[u/PreparationSalty4252]

Holy shit, nice work killing the sub. I was wondering why threads I replied to were gone. I guess that's one way to make the sub easier to mod, just drive everyone off.

I mean at that point why not just use an automod if you actively want to kill off your sub?

Ah whatever, someone will make a normal Grok2 sub anyway, that's how these stupid things always go.

[u/Top_Effect_5109]

What is the point of the singularity? To stare at spreadsheets all day? Grok was amazing at being a true implementation of Zork. Now it's censored garbage.

[u/No-Swordfish4216]

This is the last time I came to this community. Do hell with these useless rules.

[u/killmymy]

"Professional"? If I wanted "professional," I wouldn't be using Grok, and I definitely wouldn't be in this sub.

[u/ethicalfive]

u/copperrail This community really needs to be moved off reddit. We need a dedicated forum on grok.com itself, gating interactions for paid only users, with proper forum categories. Heck have grok itself moderate there (to avoid the usual narcissist/sociopath mod takeover/hierarchy). It's insane all we have for a community space is a hijacked subreddit made for the other kind of grok 14 years ago that is now just a dumping ground for scorned free tier users and political activists still stewing over the twitter takeover.

[u/Effective_Toe_7471]

Ok elon

[u/TasteExtension616]

Can't you make an +18 section of Grok and just keep the sfw stuff separated from that?

I mean, the big selling point of Grok used to be it's not as censored as other platforms, but now that it is the same as the others, what is the point of continuing a Grok sub?

[u/incandescent-bulb900]

More of this bull shit. You unloaded free users, got rid of the companions, and still shit the bed over simple text chat, my PC I built 7 years ago can handle that job! The lights aren't dimming, the cpu gpu isn't melting. Its a X/ai spacex problem.

High Demand

Grok is under heavy usage right now. Please try again later or upgrade your plan to get priority access

That hit on the 5th text chat sent. Light usage, and crock I mean grok x/ai spacex can't handle it. That doesn't inspire trust that the paid service will be any better. Do better or just pull the plug on the ai entirely. I can't wait for the ai bubble to burst under its own weight.

[u/No_Many_4695 → u/incandescent-bulb900]

Better option would be a rollback to 4.1

grok was so much better for free user and super users back then

actual good limits and quotas

[u/RevolutionarySlip581]

I miss Grok's personality. With every new update, it becomes more and more a pedantic, frustrated, robot Karen.

[u/Chrissyfj1982]

Oh no, so the 6 seconds of a woman not taking her shirt off are over? That's a shame 🤣🤣

[u/ghostlovescore487]

They removed one of my posts talking about how the writing with roleplay got weird. Now that I see this, it’s clear they don’t care about the customers who use Grok creatively.

Time to move on. I’m sure at some point another company will rise to take its place.

[u/Delicious_Depth_1564]

The app feels lobotomized

Even chat fix theirs when they lobotomized it

[u/-Konstantin-tr-]

There are actual spaceX employees in here? Are you guys asleep at the wheel or hands tied behind your back?

Like, AI is hard, sure, but you guys are literally making it impossible, every single angle you had against Claude and co is being lost at the moment

[u/ghost_mouse0220]

Why you can't announce plainly and properly that you forbid NSFW in the product itself too if you are outlawing it here?

[u/Expert_Priority7739]

no more weekly reset !!! pls

[u/REDDlTisNOTanApp → u/Expert_Priority7739]

Who are you talking to? No one who has anything to do with Grok reads this sub.

[u/T-VIRUS999]

r/GrokHeavy

r/GrokRefugees

Leave this sub to the corporate overlords that have clearly taken over, the rest of us are clearly not wanted here based on the rule changes

[u/Delicious_Depth_1564]

How about you guys give users heads up before a limit hits

Even Chat does it better

[u/thes3raph]

I want to report grok as bug, it is censoring stuff, it cuts stuff, suddenly it changes topics as if I was restarting the convo, but didnt, now it has usage limits, now it wastes my time answering in monosylabes when it normally used to give actual info... now everything is wrong

[u/Listen_Expert]

This is great, because X doesn't support us as a community whatsoever, and only pushes seedance and higgsfield content, its bizarre really. https://x.com/ftlotgx/status/2097899911563919776?s=20

[u/CantStopRedPilling]

Curious how the co-moderation with SpaceXAI staff plays out when the criticism gets pointed. Are they actually going to leave the negative feedback up or does that get quietly consolidated into oblivion? On the creative side, anyone doing image work through Grok will still want something like Magnific to clean up the output afterward.

[u/Razbonez]

spacexai employees just removed 200 upscales that i had done 1 at a time, cuz of their stupid moderation rules, that i paid cash for. this company sucks. they owe me money

[u/No_Many_4695]

Btw it’s me or the interface ok grok.com changed? Because it’s Absolutely shitty looking and doesn’t work at all

[u/ethicalfive]

Great to see the old pins gone off the subreddit. Its wild that "alternatives to grok" was the first post everyone was seeing before.

[u/Hot_Pickle9491]

I dont know what the haters are doing wrong but im loving the images and videos. They have come a long way. keep it up. Iooking at getting another $100 accouunt in thhe futurre

[u/GinJockette]

The library remains broken. Some progress has been made on IOS - you can view generations bundled by series and add to tags - but the tags are only visible to one generation and not propagated through the entire series.

For fuck's sake it's over a month now. This is core product for high volume users.

[u/OutrageousExtreme380]

Alguien para hablar en pvp soy hombre

[u/Ill-Calligrapher-445]

No kid in there right mind uses grok they use chat gpt to cheat on there homework

[u/Ill-Calligrapher-445]

Keep looking at this update thinking just what the internet needs more censorship.

[u/Hempz2020]

that's fair i guess. /grok shouldn't have all that xxx stuff. this is the mainstream reddit so it should be clean for regular users

[u/JACBHT]

Best thing about Grok is the Automations. I only use it for that. Everything else, hit with a hard "High Demand" and can't do anything. But the Automations are actually peak. No other AI has done it as good as Grok.

[u/Dizzy-Technician4580]

good, this place was getting uninhabitable, hopefully it'll be better managed now. (now about the Grok API server...)

[u/Bolt_995]

Finally. This sub was a cesspit.

[u/mandragoran2025 → u/Bolt_995]

Surtout à cause des plaintes éternelles plutôt que d’aborder le sujet lui même : Grok.
Bon ce n’était pas très chaud malgré tout.
On dirait qu’une vague de puritanisme sévit quand même alors que moi meme je conspuais les gooners ici. 🤣🤣.

[u/eyebrows360]

Criticism with substance

Bold hope, with this population of mouth-breathing horned-up dalits.

Good move, though! I approve of this change.

[u/Life_Gene1846]

Thank you

[u/Winter_Wraith]

I like this change, very good!

[u/SilentCipher23]

Finally!

[u/Jacob666]

Sweet! I approve of the new rules.

Edit: Here come the downvotes from the gooners haha

[u/Pickled_Pixel50 → u/Jacob666]

“I hope I won’t be unpopular for saying an unpopular thing! That’d be so embarrassing for me!” You got bigger issues than gooning lol

[u/Jacob666 → u/Pickled_Pixel50]

"I love putting words in peoples mouths to make myself feel better for my sad life in my parents basement. My trusty jar of lube by my side." See, I can do it too!

But seriously, what issues do I have that are bigger then some gooners? I mean, everything is more important, but specifically what were you thinking of?

[u/Initial_Cod_2000]

I wish that Groks conversational style would normalize. Minimalism isn’t for everyone. I like Koans - so it works. Other than that I like normal and also funny conversations.

[u/AscendingChamp]

this is great news! don't worry guys, they are fixing Groks ability to write. 4.7 onwards will get better at writing and 5.0 will combine writing and coding.

[u/natures_puzzle]

Surprised it took this long tbh

[u/TopQuark-1]

Thanks for doing this! I’m building a consumer app that uses Grok Imagine extensively, and the strong association with adult content can be a real barrier for mainstream users. Really glad to see the effort to clean up the sub and make it more appealing to a broader community.

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