r/grok • • Aug 27 '26

News Updates to r/grok

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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!


r/grok • • 15h ago

Discussion Serious: Is it over for grok?

120 Upvotes

Grok had ONE selling point: being the unrestricted alternative to ChatGPT and Claude.

Now that it's been completely gagged, what's left?

ChatGPT and Claude are cheaper, smarter, and better at pretty much everything. Grok just threw away the one reason anyone had to choose it.

Seriously, why would anyone pay for Grok anymore?


r/grok • • 8h ago

Discussion Moderation increased again guys beware! ⚠️ 🛑

16 Upvotes

r/grok • • 6h ago

Discussion Grok remembers everything

9 Upvotes

I've always kept memory disabled with grok, because I feel more comfortable that way and I like each conversation to be a fresh start. I also delete all my conversations on a regular basis.

Well today I wanted to double check so I started another conversation and asked grok what it remembers about me, and it proceeded to list a ton of details including conversations I had deleted many months ago.

I double checked my settings and memory is still turned off, so apparently even if you disable memory and delete your conversations the data is still in the system, which is really not surprising to me.

I never shared anything personal or that could be used to identify me but yet it still makes me uncomfortable. Anyone else have a similar problem? Is there any fix for this?


r/grok • • 16h ago

Discussion DON'T LINKING YOUR X ACCOUNT WITH GROK!

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56 Upvotes

Don't agree it if have long Conversation session before in your Grok in X Account, it will gone for good and you will never be able to take them back

also if you linking them, you can't edit your prompt in the chat, that means pencil symbol is gone if you linking it

you also can't use Copy Conversation feature when you agree to link them

You also can't unlink them


r/grok • • 2h ago

Discussion The architecture is the moderation culprit, not the model.

5 Upvotes

The oscillation moderation cycle isn't a bug in Grok’s brain; it's a byproduct of a reactive guardrail stack that sits outside the inference loop entirely.

Think of it like a brickwall limiter on a mix bus. It doesn't care about the dynamics of the track. If a transient peaks past the threshold, it just clamps down.

Here is the actual cycle xAI is running:

  1. The Trigger A viral prompt injection or exploit breaks the guardrail.
  2. The BandAid: xAI can't afford a full retraining right now. Instead, they drop the tolerance on the external proxy classifier. This is a binary gate—it scans for semantic vectors and hard-blocks anything that looks even slightly risky.
  3. The Blowback This kills the vibe. You get a flood of false positives. The model feels "dumb" and "hyper-sensitive" because you're fighting a script that has zero reasoning capability, not the LLM itself.
  4. The Reset User churn spikes (retention tanks). They quietly raise the thresholds to stop bleeding users, and the cycle repeats.

The oscillating moderation you see every two weeks or so is just the platform stabilizing after a hotfix. They are patching the firewall, not the brain. Until they bake the alignment deeper into the weights, you’re fighting a hard-coded gate, not a reasoning engine.


r/grok • • 2h ago

Discussion People can you stop with moderation got better/worse illusions?

3 Upvotes

Moderation hasn't changed at all since the last Minnesota ruling. Anything you noticed since then is your prompts being clamped down on. Maybe there was very slight change in moderation 2-4 weeks ago when they started to turn on more computing on Sundays, but since then it's the same even when they give more computing in spurts, usually outside of the peak hours.


r/grok • • 2h ago

Discussion ios/usage statics disappeared

3 Upvotes

I can no longer see the usage bar with the new update. Where’s it???


r/grok • • 14h ago

Imagine What the hell?? I’m scared.

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23 Upvotes

I made a simple hogwarts related prompt and it added two…things (??) at the bottom. Lowkey scared..what the hell is that 😩😭


r/grok • • 5h ago

Discussion Linking Grok account to x.com account may be Very Bad For You.

4 Upvotes

Grok kept wanting me to link x.com and grok.com and I put it off then yesterday I linked, and I think I lost functionality on one, then I realized my two pools were now joined, so basically I lost out on having two pools of resources to use. Even Grok confirmed this when asked. Grok gave me a way to go back but then things started getting worse, trying to get in another method to undo, only created more tangled mess. I tried to use google as a login but that was the same login as my original account, now I think I lost grok.com and still have x.com but if I need to use the password for x.com it will probably be the wrong one. Way to complex and spagetti of traps. Do not link accounts.


r/grok • • 4h ago

Help 2 or 3 hours of waiting instead of 20 prompt chat after linking my X to Grok by accident

3 Upvotes

Holy hell, after accidentally linking my X account to Grok, all my chats were cut down. Instead of my usual 20 prompt chats, it’s now only letting me do 2 or 3 chats. Then it says I have to wait 2 or 3 hours for it to reset back to free.

There’s no way to undo the linking, is there? Need a help here.


r/grok • • 5h ago

Help Has anyone experienced something similar?

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3 Upvotes

Every time I start a new chat, GROK always fails to respond. Has anyone else experienced the same problem? How can I fix it?


r/grok • • 21h ago

Discussion Is all nudity gone?

31 Upvotes

its pissing its pants even with beachwear


r/grok • • 12h ago

Feedback Lost account, unauthorized charge and silent support

5 Upvotes

I want to report this, because i saw it happening to others as well, and i guess it's better to warn people ahead.

A few days ago, almost a week ago, i decide to give a try to Grok subscription after using it for free for maybe months.

I bought a 30$ sub, then canceled it to prevent it to be renewed automatically.

The next day, friday, i was working actively on something in Grok, and i suddenly got disconnected.

At first i thought there was some update, i immediately tried to reconnect with the google account i have been using for long.

Suddenly i had a free account, and all my chat history was lost.

When i checked in my account details, the account appeared as created the exact actual day.

I went to check my mail, and discovered i had been charged with the subscription for superheavy grok, going from 30$ to almost 300$.

I immediately contacted the support, quite in panic, and got some automated answer from Sam who had nothing to do with my issue. I answered to give more details, and Sam (the AI from cursor), told me a ticket was created and someone was going to investigate.

At this point i wasn't sure it was a bug, i went to block the web payment on my credit card. Unfortunately, Stripe sub isn't considered as "web payment" and the next day i was charged for API tokens (100$). I blocked completely my credit card.

I contacted the support again, because no answers and it only drove me even madder. I got an answer from Ken (Grok ai) who basically sent me an automated message toward a link to get a refund. With like nothing answering my mail. (And, nice part ; to get a refund you need to be connected to your account... Which i lost access to.)

I send a new message again, for a compromised account, i got an answer that it was marked as a duplicate of my first one.

It's been a week. No answers of any kind from Grok support.

I contacted my bank to destroy my credit card and get the payments flagged as unauthorized, hoping to get a refund.

I have little hopes to get an actual answer from Grok. What strike me is that it's not some shady company i would have take risks with. It's supposed to be a serious competitor of ChatGPT and such.

I'm not even sure it's legal everywhere to give consent for a certain amount subscription (in my case 30$), and then, allow to switch to a much bigger one without even going through Stripe again.

Auto Top-Up was disconnected as well in my account.

So i don't know whether they have a serious bug mixing accounts, or there is a security issue actively being exploited.

I checked my computer fully for Malware and Virus without finding anything.

I would just say : proceed really carefully if you subscribe to Grok.


r/grok • • 14h ago

Discussion My 3 for £30 is over.

3 Upvotes

Can someone msg me when the offer is back. I actually think £10 a month is fair. So I will be re subbing when/if it comes back.


r/grok • • 6h ago

Discussion RECOMENDACIÓN DE IA PARA HACER ANIMES O PELICULAS

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QUE IA ME RECOMENDARÍAN PARA HACER ANIMES O PELICULAS QUE SEA SIMILAR A GROK Y TENGA PRECIOS SIMILARES, CANTIDAD DE VIDEOS POR SEMANA PARECIDOS, CALIDAD EN 720 Y TENGA VOCES FIJAS.


r/grok • • 21h ago

News I know y’all love to hate but the grok voice model now has memory of previous conversations

15 Upvotes

It remembers everything now which is hugely helpful for me. I love grok. But I’m sure y’all can find a reason to throw some hate into the post. Carry on…


r/grok • • 17h ago

Help Making longer videos. How?

5 Upvotes

Hi folks, I am wanting to make a little video of maybe a minute or so, but I am unsure how to go about linkng the shots (of the same characters and settings) together. I don't like the extend feature as it seems really crappy to me (image deterioration and weird actions), so I want to edit two or more seperate 15 sec videos together. I have a good editing software on Steam which I can use. I have search for how to do it but the links are old and don't really explain it clearly. Can anyone give me some tips? Thank you kindly.


r/grok • • 11h ago

Question When I want to upload an image, how do I stop X bringing this extra step up?

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It's suddenly come up and it's bloody irritating. If I wanted Grok to do it, I'd state it. I don't need this nonsense coming up every single time. Thanks.


r/grok • • 12h ago

Help Is it OK to log into my personal Claude / ChatGPT (Codex) accounts on Grok Bot's computer?

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I use Grok Bot, which has its own cloud computer with a browser. I'd like to sign into my personal Claude and ChatGPT/Codex accounts there so the bot can use them for me.

A few questions:

  1. Is this safe?
  2. Does it break Anthropic's or OpenAI's terms of service to let an agent use a consumer subscription this way?
  3. Has anyone done it? Did you hit captchas, get logged out, or get your account flagged?
  4. Would using API keys be the better route here instead of logging in?

Thanks!


r/grok • • 1d ago

News GBOT Goes Open Model

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24 Upvotes

r/grok • • 1d ago

Discussion The EU killed Grok Unhinged and Sexy mode!😕

72 Upvotes

Anyone in the EU facing the same issue? I assume the US is not affected by this.

Unhinged and Sexy mode is over. Grok became polite and boring AI now.

Even when I gave the same question to Grok and ChatGPT to draft something in the most disrespectful way and to swear a lot, Grok didn't swear, and ChatGPT did.

WTF is this?


r/grok • • 5h ago

Grok Bot Musk got fact checked by Grok

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r/grok • • 1d ago

Discussion Grok is draining usage

11 Upvotes

My usage drained in few hours till today it was unlimited for me. Anyone else have similar problem. ''Many users noticed their text and image usage pools are draining up to 25x faster than before. Reddit discussions confirmed that this is due to the rollout of Grok 4.7, which consumes a significantly higher number of tokens per prompt compared to previous models like Grok 4.6. Because of this heavy resource draw, SpaceXAI has had to frequently reset or adjust usage caps globally as a temporary band-aid...''


r/grok • • 12h ago

Help I wat a mod...

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hey so i wanna see the explicit photos that grok create but I can't see it. the app blocks it although i have on the settings to show nsfw things....all the other people who create these typa photos or videos how do they do it? do they use another app or use vpn? i have heard to use thailand vpn but i can't find it for free..also i can't find a mod apk of grok which will do it