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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?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

The primary defining characteristic of slop machine users is favouring convenience over accuracy. So slop machine users on twitter.

It's not like the variety of convincing lie machine really matters, if you're manipulating text you've input they all do about the same and outside of that they're unreliable and kinda stupid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I once asked for coding help to test it out and it said "yeah, I ain't reading all that"

Haven't touched it since. It's sad to see how many bots ask it for help or fact-checking...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I'm constantly told that half of the software industry is vibe coding, but if you ask it for anything that hasnt been done 500 thousand times it will fail every time

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I had a very long conversation with grok.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Cybertruck enjoyers

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

People use Grok because it's integrated into twitter. All the top twitter posts have Grok in the replies now. It's like the new community note or "fact check" on twitter.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I used it the other day to ask it about white genocide in South Africa and whether Elon Musk was behind it. It gave safe answers to all my questions and also today I couldn't log in to my twitter account but honestly, good riddance.
Really makes you think.

(I'd never used it before and now never will again)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

nobody uses it on openrouter

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

I’ve been using Claude.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I figure it's basically the same crowd who pays for Twitter, that is, piggies

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Most probable answer. I don't know any of them maybe that's why it seemed to strange to me

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

You've gotta remember that these are simple posters. These are people of the tweet. The common clay of the new west. Y'know, morons.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

And Grok's quality, from what I've seen, is pretty sub-par.

It's just using the default Flux checkpoint AFAIK.

I also assume that under the hood "grok" is just some open source LLM model they did a finetune on or something. It came out of a gutted company with absolutely no lead up and no research papers, on the demands of the dumbest and most easily grifted man alive. He obviously just told someone to make it happen and they grabbed claude or something, did a couple of weeks of training, then presented it to him so he could bark and clap like a trained seal.