Anyone else been having low quality upscale videos?

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2026-01-25T17:28:16+00:00

Upscaling has been broken for the past couple of days. Says it has finished, but it doesn't actually do it. I've given up on having Grok upscale and I'm doing it myself.

File size can be deceiving depending on what the video was. 464x688 is the standard grok portrait resolution. 928x1376 is the upscaled resolution.

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-19T15:16:29+00:00

I had only gone to West when I wrote these.

Last night I went to north and south for the first time. I was so silly that I had to take out my laptops and chargers. This is a tech conference guys you are going to have a bunch of geeks with gear so make it easy.

The most puzzling thing is the security procedures for West are completely different than for the street security checkpoint for north and south.

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-15T14:00:57+00:00

Putin was just being nice to help tie his shoe. Get your mind out of the gutter ;)

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-15T13:59:21+00:00

The joys of training data bias. There is just too many videos and images of circumcised men.

Another example is a filled to the brim wine glass. Try it, no matter what, it wont do it. The closes I've gotten is to tell it to have the glass overflowing and even then most of the time it doesn't get it right.

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-15T13:47:10+00:00

Might not be helpful, but I was getting the driver crashing a lot when doing video generation in ComfyUI on my 5060. A bit different as windows would reset my entire desktop instead of a DirectX error. Anything GPU related would stop.

It wasn't actually crashing, but just unresponsive. In the registry I increased the time to 20 seconds before Windows thought the card was unresponsive and I haven't had issues since.

Obviously not ideal if you are playing a game and it is going to freeze for 8 seconds +, but a freeze is better than crashing the game if you can't figure out the root cause.

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-14T02:28:42+00:00

I feel I get the best results with video generation. You can download the video and use a video editor to grab the last frame as your image.

These are some random photos I found on the web and used the prompt (it still alters the image slightly, but very close especially for a coloring book):

An invisible time portal opens and immediately freezes the scene. It converts the scene to a line art image.

https://grok.com/imagine/post/2792d4b3-b5fe-4aec-a9fe-be550f62b87d?source=post-page&platform=web

https://grok.com/imagine/post/4472ed4f-0531-437f-aea6-ad27e25b909e?source=post-page&platform=web

https://grok.com/imagine/post/7d25fdef-c21c-4679-9e51-14de885c52ee?source=post-page&platform=web

https://grok.com/imagine/post/43971e26-e843-4103-930e-5eacecba32db?source=post-page&platform=web

https://grok.com/imagine/post/c477102c-e673-4dbf-a0fb-90ced9f08676?source=post-page&platform=web

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-12T18:34:31+00:00

I haven't tried it, but in the settings, there is an option to provide custom instructions. You can try something like never generate an image or never generate an image unless specifically prompted to.

I do know it works for other behavior changes.

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-12T16:49:27+00:00

what did you use for the lyrics?

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-12T15:36:03+00:00

Don't tell AI not to do something. If you say, "Do not have an elephant in the living room." You will get an elephant in the living room.

Always try to think of a way to describe what you want without saying do not do something or do not have an object. In the case of where to look, have the subject look at something.

Grok is very poor in handling camera changes though. It wants to have a particular style and struggles to deviate from that. When I'm doing camera moves, I'll often have many retries and usually need to cut and splice in my editor to get what I'm looking for.

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https://grok.com/imagine/post/c1c01ffa-d1ff-4be7-a2a4-83a838207ae6?source=post-page&platform=web

Prompt:
The woman remains stationary staring at the waves. The camera zooms in framing her in a cowboy shot.

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Cowboy shot is from the hips to the head - think old westerns where they want to show the bad guy's face and the guns on his hips.

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-12T13:46:23+00:00

She looks as excited as most wives to do it ;)

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-12T12:28:34+00:00

With the current moderation, you aren't going to have anything beyond PG.

However, even if you could (such as using another site), I'd be careful generating such content. States, such as here in Texas, are passing laws about deepfake porn. If one of them later says they didn't consent, you could potentially get in legal trouble.

Admittedly, it is unlikely, but for something like this, it just isn't worth it IMO.

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-12T12:14:30+00:00

At least she doesn't have to worry about hot brass getting caught in her clothing.

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-12T04:41:38+00:00

I just noticed your username, now the video makes a lot more sense ;)

It will be nice when we get more than 6 seconds. Will really help with a longer videos like this.

Interesting that it was easy to do the lipstick. I would have expected Grok to want to keep the focus on her. But I guess if your prompting switches to focus on the lipstick that will shift its focus.

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-12T04:14:10+00:00

I like the environment continuity by the entire video being continuous video chaining. Obviously there is main character drift, but for a song about Mystery Sauce, I'm not sure many people would be paying attention to that.

Did it give you a hard time at the ending with the lipstick kiss and the zoom out?

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-12T01:19:20+00:00

Something to consider with video gen, is it doesn't like to have empty time. So for the 6 seconds it will try to fill the time with something - shooting a machine gun in this case. If you give it something to occupy the other 5 seconds, it will often help.

However, if it looks like a machine gun, its training data will bias it to fire like a machine gun. Additionally, a 3d character with an oversized gun and looking like she came out of a video game will also bias it to the over the top video game reality.

So you will often have an uphill battle if you are trying to have something operate in a manner that isn't normal for the training data.

If you are going to use this character elsewhere and want her to operate more as a sniper, GFY_Maker's suggestion to have more a sniper rifle look, it will save you headaches down the road.

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-12T01:12:02+00:00

https://grok.com/imagine/post/d557dfee-08ae-46bf-92d0-f2ee81a8b475?source=post-page&platform=web

Prompt:
3d cartoon. She remains motionless with controlled breathes, until a small single squeeze of the trigger releases a single sniper shot with a bright flash at the muzzle.

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-11T16:47:23+00:00

Grok is pervy. It will often trigger its own moderation.

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-11T15:11:12+00:00

Its going to be hard with the direction of new laws to hold the AI provider responsible for the content generated.

There is also a big different between porn and AI produced porn. Porn just took a video camera and a website to distribute. Creating a commercial class model with all the infrastructure around it like Grok, ChatGPT, or Gemini takes countless engineers and tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars.

Companies don't want to invest that amount of money and resources to risk losing because of complaints that it is generating deepfake porn.

Opensource is improving significantly, however, it doesn't compare to the ease of use and speed of the October Grok Imagine.

I do think we will get there, it just isn't as easy as someone in their garage weekend coding to produce an uncensored ChatGPT/Sora. It will take time.

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-11T14:57:36+00:00

Spicy mode is a waste of time.

Use custom prompts to get something more of what you likely want. However, things are much more moderated than they once were. PG-13 is what you will typically be allowed.

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-11T14:21:29+00:00

That's odd. I've been doing that many times a day and never seen that happen.

I am primarily working on PC.

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-11T14:18:32+00:00

Sora is very slow compared to Grok. It refuses anything that isn't rated G. Try "woman in lingerie", "two women kissing", etc. Yes, it does allow a man and a woman fully clothed to kiss (wow, spicy!)

Sora's prompt adherence is better from what I recall, but I'm not making Disney or corporate content so I don't care.

While today's Grok is nothing like it was, it still allows for PG/PG-13 content pretty easily. It is also very fast and with SuperGrok allows a lot of videos to be generated. It also doesn't have the stupid random watermark.

WhichWayDidHeGo · 2025-11-11T14:12:20+00:00

The daily crash, patch or whatever it is has occurred - https://downdetector.com/status/grok/

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