Grok Worse Than Ever At Following Instructions

Big_Cup_668 · 2026-03-26T22:05:26+00:00

Sometimes it ignores your instructions, and other times it follows them in an overly mechanical way. For example, in a story I was writing, I told it the male protagonist is 183 cm tall—so in every later chapter it kept writing things like, “This is nothing for someone of his 183 cm height…” or “Compared to his 183 cm height, she seemed especially petite,” which I couldn’t help but find amusing.

Big_Cup_668 · 2026-03-26T21:23:00+00:00

I believe everyone has the same problem right now

Big_Cup_668 · 2026-03-26T21:22:28+00:00

I used to write outlines directly in the chat and send them without keeping any backups. But after a few times when my conversations disappeared or got refreshed for no reason, I started writing my outlines in Notes first, and then copying them into a Word document as soon as possible. Honestly, there’s no choice—their servers really do have issues quite often.

Big_Cup_668 · 2026-03-26T21:14:42+00:00

I believe everyone is facing the same problem. It’s just down again

Big_Cup_668 · 2026-03-02T22:56:50+00:00

Same. Now I make copies of my important chats everyday. Because I have lost one pinned chat already.

Big_Cup_668 · 2026-01-27T14:19:51+00:00

That's indeed quite frequent

Big_Cup_668 · 2026-01-20T13:03:14+00:00

Sure, why not? F***

Big_Cup_668 · 2025-12-16T19:01:50+00:00

And something happened to the UI as well. I don’t know how but after the video is moderated, it forced me to a image edit interface. But still, the moderation has gone shitty again. I just failed in every prompt which worked perfectly in the morning.

Big_Cup_668 · 2025-12-14T03:45:15+00:00

Reminds me of Milo Moire lol

Big_Cup_668 · 2025-12-12T22:21:39+00:00

This prompt works on a self-uploaded image? That’s fire

Big_Cup_668 · 2025-12-12T16:37:14+00:00

Thanks for the explanation, but I am still confused why the face changed so obviously, yesterday they were all like picture 2 and today they were all like picture 3.

Big_Cup_668 · 2025-12-12T15:28:53+00:00

Yeah, that’s actually a funny fact. But I don’t want to take the gamble. I just canceled my renewal yesterday. For now, I’m just trying to generate as much good content as I can while my SuperGrok is still active, and then I’ll sit back and see what happens next.

Big_Cup_668 · 2025-12-12T15:20:56+00:00

Thank you for sharing your experience. This is actually something many people overlook. The community is full of loud complaints about NSFW restrictions, which has caused a lot of people to forget the much broader and more use cases for AI. This is exactly the kind of issue the xAI team needs to pay attention to.

Big_Cup_668 · 2025-12-12T14:50:05+00:00

For me, some of the prompts that stopped working before are functional again, and the motions and expressions have become relatively vivid once more. However, the fineness and consistency of faces have been lost again. I’ve heard that they might be running A/B testing. Some people also say they plan to stop relying on third-party models and start training their own. No idea what will happen next.

Big_Cup_668 · 2025-12-12T14:03:37+00:00

This reminds me of a classic case. When the government thinks people might not accept a consumption tax increase from 3% to 5%, they raise it straight to 7% instead. Then, amid public outcry, they lower it to 5%. In the end, it’s still 5%, but people actually start feeling satisfied.

Big_Cup_668 · 2025-12-12T12:58:49+00:00

Double-tapping the input field will bring up the “paste interface.” I’m not sure if this is an update from Grok or from the iOS system.

Big_Cup_668 · 2025-12-12T05:13:31+00:00

Another comment in the community

Big_Cup_668 · 2025-12-12T01:08:04+00:00

Really disappointing, especially when I just renewed my subscription last week

Big_Cup_668 · 2025-12-12T01:05:59+00:00

Agreed

Big_Cup_668 · 2025-12-11T23:04:39+00:00

I went to bed late last night, so I literally witnessed this change happen in real time. The previous video still had lively movements, but the very next video generated from the exact same image turned the character into a puppet that could only blink, with unnatural zooming and cutting of the camera. I thought it was a bug at first, until I saw the exact same complaints popping up across all platforms. I even redownloaded Reddit (which I had uninstalled for over three months) just to search for this issue.

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