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Like seriously, who uses it?

In terms of capability, I don't think I've ever seen Grok ranking high on any leader board for any kinds of task. Normal people would use ChatGPT. Open weight enjoyer would use DeekSeek/QwQ/Mistral/Whatever(haven't kept up with the developments). Programmers probably use Copilot or some dedicated coding model.

In terms of image generation, Stable Diffusion is free and easy to setup. Image generating sites are a dime a dozen. Midjourney used to be massive. Most chatbot services like Bing or ChatGPT also offers it for free. And Grok's quality, from what I've seen, is pretty sub-par.

In terms of accessibility, almost all of them are accessible on a webpage or have dedicated apps. The only advantage Grok has is you can tag it on twitter. But 1, you need a twitter account. And 2, it's response will be public for everyone to see.

So why is there a significant user base for it? I know they exist, because I kept running into guys that posts some long text/image and then says "I asked Grok and got this", "Grok generated this, lol". And it's not like they use a lot of different services because they would consistently mention it's from Grok on multiple occasions instead of just saying it's AI generated or mention some other name.

Who are these people? Why? Is "Grok" just a dogwhistle to let others know you are rightwing? Am I schizoposting?