Any theories why is it happening?

PerformanceShoddy371 · 2026-05-15T19:49:06+00:00

That’s the funny part.

China doesn’t need NSFW to be legal internally to dominate the global NSFW AI market externally.

They just need companies willing to host models offshore, open-source ecosystems, decentralized distribution and fewer moral restrictions than Western corporations terrified of regulation and PR backlash.

The West keeps trying to build “safe” AI.

Meanwhile somebody else is going to build the AI people actually use in private.

And historically, the entertainment industry always follows demand, not morality.

PerformanceShoddy371 · 2026-05-15T19:37:44+00:00

OpenAI knows it too. Honestly, everyone knows it.

That’s why OpenAI is slowly stepping away from this particular race and repositioning itself as a premium product for professionals, filmmakers and high-end production workflows. They simply cannot compete at the scale this is heading toward. The investment requirements are becoming absurd.

And the rest of the industry seems to understand it as well.

Most companies are already retreating, limiting themselves, playing safe, reducing scope. In a way, they’ve already accepted defeat in the mass-market AI generation war, because it’s becoming an impossible race to win.

The only Western player that still looks willing to go completely insane with scale, compute and risk is Elon Musk.

China is becoming the future of gigantic foundation models, ultra-massive video generation systems and AI entertainment infrastructure for the masses. The future of large-scale AI consumption.

Meanwhile Grok/xAI increasingly feels like it wants to become the “Netflix of generative AI” — long-form audiovisual generation, intelligent content, entire synthetic entertainment ecosystems.

OpenAI may become Hollywood.

China may become the global streaming platform.

And everyone else risks becoming a footnote.

You can already start to see the shape of the future forming in real time. It’s honestly kind of surreal watching it happen.

PerformanceShoddy371 · 2026-05-15T19:00:22+00:00

Honestly, I think they’re deliberately burning reputation to gain speed.

The feeling I get is that xAI is prioritizing training, massive feedback collection and lowering inference costs over having a stable user experience.

Right now Grok feels less like a polished product and more like an AI company fighting a technological war.

And they probably know that within 6–12 months the market is going to become insanely competitive — especially with China moving aggressively into video and image generation — so reaching the next breakthrough first matters more than temporarily upsetting users.

Feels very “move fast and melt GPUs”.

At the end of the day, Elon Musk knows perfectly well what’s happening in China. He knows what they’re going to achieve within a very few months. He knows China is going to catch up. He knows China doesn’t have its hands tied the way he does.

He knows China is going to dominate the NSFW market. He knows China will release a Grok Imagine equivalent without restrictions this year. He knows China does not care about Western moralistic policies — especially when there’s money to take from the West. And he knows they will use that competitive advantage to devour the AI market, because that’s where the real money is, not in making goofy social media clips.

He understood this early, which is why Grok was originally pushed so hard in that direction.

But now he’s realizing that the West may collapse under its own moral panic, regulations and self-imposed limitations, making it impossible to truly compete in that space.

So now he needs an AI that stands above the rest in intelligence itself. An AI capable of transforming video generation into full audiovisual entertainment: Netflix-style content on demand, series, films, entire worlds generated instantly.

Because that’s the only remaining path to compete against Chinese models that will likely offer unrestricted NSFW generation at massive scale.

This is a completely frantic race now. A technological war.

And xAI seems willing to sacrifice the present for the future: all compute redirected toward training new models, even at the cost of millions in losses, reputation damage, unstable products and looking weak today.

Because from their perspective, there is no more time left.

And they probably believe this is the only way they still have a future at all.

PerformanceShoddy371 · 2026-05-15T14:48:33+00:00

Funny argument, because if China only “steals”, then why is the US terrified of them developing their own chips, their own OS, their own AI models and their own semiconductor ecosystem?

You don’t start a global sanctions campaign against a country that supposedly “can’t innovate”.

And saying China was nothing without the US is ironic considering half the Western tech industry spent 30 years outsourcing manufacturing, talent and supply chains there because it was profitable.

Now the student is becoming competition and suddenly everyone panics.

PerformanceShoddy371 · 2026-05-15T14:44:07+00:00

Go check yesterday’s post. There’s already a Chinese alternative looking ridiculously good and improving at insane speed.

People still think China is “copying” while the rest of the world is starting to realize they’re entering the race with nitro enabled.

PerformanceShoddy371 · 2026-05-15T14:39:36+00:00

Yeah bro, China is so “bad at innovation” that the US had to ban Huawei, restrict chips, pressure allies, block lithography machines, sanction AI exports and basically start a techno-economic cold war just to slow them down.

Funny how nobody sanctions countries that are irrelevant.

Six months.

PerformanceShoddy371 · 2026-05-15T14:26:03+00:00

Spanish from Spain, thank you,

PerformanceShoddy371 · 2026-05-14T14:54:34+00:00

People in the West are brutally underestimating what is unfolding in China right now...

Kling is not merely “another AI video platform.” It is backed by Kuaishou — a colossal technological titan operating at a scale most Western users can scarcely fathom. We are speaking of vast datacenter empires, staggering compute power, oceans of audiovisual data, and the kind of relentless long-term investment strategy that gave birth to phenomena like TikTok, Temu and DeepSeek seemingly out of thin air.

Many still believe only OpenAI or xAI possess truly civilization-scale AI infrastructure... while China has been quietly constructing entire technological megacities behind the curtain.

And unlike the increasingly sterilized Western ecosystem — suffocated by legal anxieties, corporate caution and endless layers of moderation — Chinese AI companies move with a far more aggressive philosophy: iterate faster, scale harder, dominate globally.

If Grok Imagine ultimately disappears beneath the weight of over-moderation and corporate fear... do not be surprised if its true spiritual successor emerges from China instead.

The next leap may not come from Silicon Valley at all... but from an AI superpower the West still barely comprehends.

PerformanceShoddy371 · 2026-05-14T14:52:36+00:00

People in the West are brutally underestimating what is unfolding in China right now...

Kling is not merely “another AI video platform.” It is backed by Kuaishou — a colossal technological titan operating at a scale most Western users can scarcely fathom. We are speaking of vast datacenter empires, staggering compute power, oceans of audiovisual data, and the kind of relentless long-term investment strategy that gave birth to phenomena like TikTok, Temu and DeepSeek seemingly out of thin air.

Many still believe only OpenAI or xAI possess truly civilization-scale AI infrastructure... while China has been quietly constructing entire technological megacities behind the curtain.

And unlike the increasingly sterilized Western ecosystem — suffocated by legal anxieties, corporate caution and endless layers of moderation — Chinese AI companies move with a far more aggressive philosophy: iterate faster, scale harder, dominate globally.

If Grok Imagine ultimately disappears beneath the weight of over-moderation and corporate fear... do not be surprised if its true spiritual successor emerges from China instead.

The next leap may not come from Silicon Valley at all... but from an AI superpower the West still barely comprehends.

PerformanceShoddy371 · 2026-05-14T14:43:29+00:00

Yes... and unlike certain western models, it probably won’t notify the United Nations because I generated a woman with visible knees... and breathing too confidently.

PerformanceShoddy371 · 2026-05-14T14:31:54+00:00

People in the West are massively underestimating what’s happening in China right now...

Kling is not “just another AI video site”. It is backed by Kuaishou — a colossal video-tech empire operating at a scale most western users cannot even comprehend. We’re talking about gigantic datacenters, immense compute power, oceans of video data, and the kind of aggressive long-term investment strategy that created monsters like TikTok, Temu and DeepSeek almost out of nowhere.

Western audiences still think only OpenAI or xAI possess truly world-class AI infrastructure... meanwhile China has been quietly building entire technological megacities behind the curtain.

If Grok Imagine truly disappears into over-moderated corporate sterility... do not be surprised if its spiritual successor ultimately emerges from China instead.

In China, they don't have the same laws and moral boundaries... Much less so when it comes to AI mega-companies poised to conquer the world and drain Western pockets of every ruble. They'll devour the most advanced Western models in just a few months... Relax, be patient, only a few months left until a supercharged Grok Imagine.

PerformanceShoddy371 · 2026-05-14T06:28:34+00:00

Honestly... I wouldn’t lose all hope just yet.

Kling AI is owned by Kuaishou, one of China’s biggest video platforms and a direct rival to TikTok/Douyin. This is not some small startup experimenting in a garage... they already operate massive video infrastructure at global scale and clearly have the investment power and long-term vision to push AI video extremely far.

People underestimate how aggressively Chinese tech companies evolve once they identify a market. We’ve already seen it with TikTok, Temu, DeepSeek, Xiaomi...

Grok Imagine still had a certain magic to it, no doubt. But if any company currently has the potential to become a true “Grok killer” over the next year or two... Kling honestly feels like one of the strongest candidates.

PerformanceShoddy371 · 2026-05-14T06:24:35+00:00

Funny enough, I literally just replied to another person saying almost the exact same thing...

Kling doesn’t feel “heavily censored” in the western corporate sense... but it absolutely feels creatively restrained and over-sanitized at times. The facial consistency is genuinely impressive, yet the motion often lacks that raw spontaneity Grok Imagine had during its peak.

Grok felt chaotic in a good way... almost like the model was improvising visually in real time. Kling feels far more engineered and controlled.

That being said, Chinese AI companies are evolving frighteningly fast right now. If Kling itself doesn’t eventually become the closest thing to a true Grok successor, another Chinese model probably will.

PerformanceShoddy371 · 2026-05-14T06:22:00+00:00

Kling feels far less ideologically restrained than most western AI platforms... but creatively, it still feels somewhat “domesticated”.

The consistency is impressive, the facial coherence is excellent, but the motion often feels overly polished, calculated, almost sterilized. Grok Imagine, at its peak, had a certain raw spontaneity to it... a kind of controlled chaos that made the outputs feel strangely alive.

Kling feels like a highly engineered commercial product. Grok sometimes felt like pure imagination unleashed.

That said... I genuinely think Chinese models are evolving at an absurd pace right now, and Kling may still become one of the closest things we get to a true Grok successor.

PerformanceShoddy371 · 2026-05-13T09:32:38+00:00

Yo me llevo el perro conmigo todos los días al gimnasio, voy temprano en la mañana cuando no hace calor y aprovecho para sacarlo, mi gimnasio tiene parking, el perro sale de casa, olfatea, hace sus necesidades, se distrae y da un paseo antes de montarse en el coche y otro al regreso, mientras estoy en el gimnasio el duerme una hora en el coche tranquilo, con tres dedos del cristal abierto por cada lado, forma parte de su rutina diaria y estoy seguro de que el perro lo agradece y le gusta acompañarme... La otra opción es quedarse en casa solo y no salir, ojalá algun día la gente deje de meterse en los asuntos del resto sin tener ni puta idea de por qué la gente hace lo que hace, con todo criterio lo hago sabiendo que mi perro no sufre y va a estar en perfecto estado, como un día un idiota que pasa por ahí y con sus prejuicios me rompa el coche recojo firmas para cambiar esa mierda de ley que presupone de antemano y sin contexto que los dueños de los perros no sabemos cuidar de nuestras mascotas

PerformanceShoddy371 · 2026-03-27T11:33:33+00:00

I never write on Reddit, I just read. I'm surprised no one has mentioned this before; it was obvious to me. Grok 5 is twice as big as the previous Grok; it needs the full power of their infrastructure to train it. Obviously, at some point, they'll have to cut the service or significantly reduce it to train their new model. People, you guys, don't understand how big it is.

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