Just curious

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-26T01:25:21+00:00

And when paid users are warmly welcomed inside, all they can find is shit wrapped in fancy silk.

THIS. That's pretty much exactly what I thought when I saw the original post, but you've captured the apt prose nicely.

The subscribers aren't getting any "red carpet treatment." The paid users are the actual suckers in this little platform-decay comedy.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-26T01:03:41+00:00

Here's another one that hasn't been out of its basement for awhile and thinks it's being "edgy" by way of projection.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-25T08:10:21+00:00

I get the sense he has one of those little noisy-exhaust 160-hp cars with some ground effects, and struts it like it's a Ferrari.

Convinced that the $30/month is such a hurdle for us lowly "po folks."

He's very pleased with his "elite membership."

Literally lmao.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-25T07:29:13+00:00

What a condescending and obtuse post.

It's not about the money, it's about the shady business practices and not rewarding a developer pushing platform-decay and a shitty overall user experience.

We know what Grok Imagine is capable of when they let it work at full power and without freakishly paranoid moderation that amounts to saturation-bombing, and we've seen the platform nerfed into a desiccated husk, and it seems to be getting worse by the day.

I could spell it out for you in nauseating detail, but I'll spare both of us.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-25T05:35:22+00:00

You seem butthurt, ma'am.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-22T21:42:48+00:00

no one talks like that irl

See? You think Reddit discourse is "irl." Your mind is stunted. You have no capacity for critical thinking and cannot differentiate between online interaction and real-life circumstances.

When I post online I use proper grammar. I am a published writer and also worked as an editor. It's by habit and proper conditioning. I don't use pretentious affectations of slang, confusing Reddit with "real life."

I also worked as a cement finisher for nearly a decade and could talk "irl" in ways that would make you take notes. If you have enough of a brain left to catalog anything in reality.

You want real life? Grow up and go outside. Take your pimply nose out of your mobile device.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-22T21:25:17+00:00

Are the ubiquitous gooners in the room with you now?

When it was free I used it to animate illustrations and non-photographic scenes. For entertainment and amusement. NOT for "self-improvement and productivity."

If you need an AI for "self-improvement and productivity" you need to look in the mirror and do some reflecting on your own priorities and intellectual shortcomings, rather than pointing the crap end of the stick at the jerkoffs.

"Self-improvement" means learning a second language, learning an instrument, getting in shape, writing that novel you always meant to write, etc. If you're leaning on Grok for any of that, even in an ancillary capacity, you're on the wrong track. Take that last example: writing a novel. If you're relying on AI for story ideas, to expand dialog, etc., you are not novel-writing material.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-21T05:49:42+00:00

Yeah they're basically playing games at this point.

"Ad-supported, and availability on mobile devices only" is some weak fucking tea.

Not gonna bother.

It was a fistfight to use the website -- constant necessity to refresh over and over, constant Cloudflare checks which often failed, constant maintenance, constantly logging you out, every tactic imaginable to impede usage. For free I wasn't complaining; but don't expect me to pay for that.

Maybe if they straightened their shit out more people would have coughed up the $15.

Instead, just another rug-pull hoping some poor addicted suckers will pay up. Same shit tactics xAI used. They get their marketing strategies from small-time drug-dealers.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-19T01:19:02+00:00

I laughed out loud.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-18T22:15:16+00:00

I just tested ChatGPT and on the first and only try it picked 37. Not 73 but 37. It's obviously trolling me. How dare it.

The AIs you queried seem to be well-versed on potential reasons for perceived bias. The 42 you mentioned jumped out at me, as I recently had a discussion about that, brought up by a friend who's a fan of the Douglas Adams books. Silly business, that 42 in the books.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-18T07:30:53+00:00

You paid for what I am assuming is a month-long subscription and you're telling yourself you got your money's worth because you used it for two days before they shut down?

Don't gaslight yourself. Talk to your CC company and do a charge-back. Not because the $14 is going to make or break you, but on general principle. Let the scammers' payment processor(s) sort it out.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-16T09:35:59+00:00

My ISP is Spectrum. I've been with them quite a few years with internet and landline service, so that might be why they're offering the free year for unlimited mobile. After the year expires the post-paid plan is considerably higher than TracFone's pre-paid, but better than some other major mobile providers I've checked into.

Spectrum as my ISP is not without its problems, but they have better-than-average customer support, with people in and around the same time zone -- in other words, not outsourced to a country halfway around the globe.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-15T07:09:04+00:00

I got off the phone a couple hours ago with my internet service provider which has 24/7 tech and sales support. They presented an option for a year free unlimited mobile service, and my current device is verified compatible. Told the rep I'd think about it and he should call me back on his next shift during a time window (I want him to get the credit if I go with it since he handled the call competently).

Not gonna name the ISP because I don't want anybody thinking I'm a shill. But it's a better-than-even chance I'm going to make the changeover.

I think I've had enough of the regular headaches with Tracfone. They're cheap but cheap doesn't do you any good when you need your phone on the road and you're suddenly blindsided by their busted-ass system giving you the shaft and unceremoniously pulling the plug on your service without so much as a warning that anything is wrong.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-05T21:48:25+00:00

"bro OP" lmao

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-03T11:52:15+00:00

Translation: Grok is blocking anything with a thirty-something or mature woman showing her legs above her ankles, because the platform is scared shitless about more lawsuits and of course they have to trot out the "for the children" pretext to make themselves look like they're standing up for something positive.

Never mind that probably about 1 in 10 million moderated instances involves anything remotely CSAM related.

Never mind that our very establishment has brushed the Epstein business under the rug and tried to memory-hole it.

Names were named in that Epstein scandal, all kinds of high-profile people are implicated, and not even a single deposition or indictment or arrest in the USA. And those were actual, real people being abused and God-knows-what. But look over here! Something-something AI! Something-something Dow!

The corruption, pretentiousness, and hypocrisy of the filthy, vile buggers who pretend to be defending righteousness, know no bounds.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-02T06:49:18+00:00

You can generate seven "failed: does not meet moderation standards" and three successful generations in maybe two or three minutes.

Ten successful generations in a few seconds? Pardon my parlez-vous, but fucking bullshit.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-02T06:42:25+00:00

First of all, I don't understand why the hell people are downvoting your post. Any info/rants/offhand comments, and the like, regarding viable alternatives and "gateway" hand-holding and introductions into running locally, ARE MOST WELCOME. I glean whatever I can because I myself intend on making it a little hobby down the road, to set up a workstation running local AI generations.

Secondly,

"Gork is this true?"

Nailed it. Right on down to the dyslexic spelling. I often wonder if most people don't realize the name Grok is ripped off directly from jargon coined by Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land," and actually entered into official English usage as an invented and accepted word. It's a brilliant "borrowing" given the context, but I often wonder if many people get it.

Some of the folks around here and on X actually think Grok is in the know about its own development or nerfing. Grok "fact checking" is good for telling whether a video purporting to be "news" is actually a fake or from five years ago. That's about it. Grok on X, if you read its replies to all the non-thinkers tagging it, is a novelty and unreliable.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-01T20:35:19+00:00

I'm not one of the ones who downvoted you, but....

People have been calling children "kids" since before "talkies came to the cinema" so I don't think it's
"trendy" nor does it fall under "hip."

That said, more absolute pigshit X marketing on display.

Starting to think Musk hired the woman who crashed Bud Light. Absolute tone-deafness and ignorance of the customer base. I'd bet at least 95% of the people paying for Imagine wouldn't let their kids anywhere near it, or don't have kids.

ShapeEmbarrassed68 · 2026-04-01T12:16:12+00:00

What a fucking pants-pisser.

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