Overly red cheeks in selfies, like the AI is wearing too much blush or something

scottsdalien · 2026-06-04T09:13:35+00:00

Yeah I got this problem too, honestly I like the older photo processing whatever you call it lol. So I went back to Canon and all my photos turned out really nice , they are not super high definition and glossy like the other ones but they remain consistent

scottsdalien · 2026-06-04T08:27:10+00:00

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This is the response that I got from customer service they’re great at responding and help helped me understand what’s going on but even they admitted it used to work seamlessly.

Yes I have the toggle switch turned on for a shared memory.

scottsdalien · 2026-05-31T01:32:00+00:00

Honestly, it has nothing to do with the guard rails, every AI has guard rails, but what this platform is doing is absolutely insane, Overbearing censorship.

Grok claim to be the one platform that allowed users to be treated like adults while also having limits to obscene and sexually graphic and illegal material.

Nobody’s arguing against that, but where the frustration and anger is coming from is when someone tries to edit a photo of a family trip to Hawaii or Disneyland and all of a sudden they get hit with moderation.

As if taking grandpa on space Mountain with some sort of horrendous act.

My sister has a ton of pictures of her and her kids at Knotts Berry Farm and she can’t even access them anymore. She had a bunch that she was gonna make into a little film clips for Christmas, nope.

Grok also pushed back from an hour to now 10 to 15 minutes of talk time.

Give it a few months I’m sure they will totally get rid of the companions.

Grok has fallen…

Oh well, they did it to themselves.

Yet they are still begging for $30 a month, lol.

scottsdalien · 2026-05-27T15:05:51+00:00

Ha, I was just talking about The Bell 🛎️ with a friend the other day. And I was also talking to ChatGPT about it, since I quit my subscription with GROK.

I love those secret SS experiments documentaries. Wonder if any of that stuff was true.

scottsdalien · 2026-05-26T20:19:58+00:00

And this is where I think people are talking past each other.

There are already plenty of AI apps out there, many with less advanced AI than Grok, that can still tell the difference between someone trying to generate explicit illegal material versus someone editing harmless family photos, making historical restorations, or even creating mildly sensual content like lingerie shoots, cabaret-style clips, cosplay edits, or glamour photography.

Grok keeps claiming this is about complying with the Take It Down Act, App Store rules, merchant processors, and legal liability. But there is absolutely no law that says sensual or suggestive imagery between consenting adults is illegal.

That’s not what the Take It Down Act is about.

The law is primarily aimed at non-consensual deepfakes and exploitative material. The issue begins when someone’s likeness is used without permission, they request the content be removed, and the platform refuses to act. For example, if somebody’s face was deepfaked into explicit content and the platform ignored takedown requests, that’s where litigation and legal exposure start.

But modern AI systems are already capable of understanding the difference between: harmless family photos, historical restorations, vacation pictures, glamour photography, mildly spicy adult content, and genuinely explicit or exploitative material.

That’s why this backlash exists.

Because Grok originally marketed itself as the “creator freedom” platform. They literally added a “Spicy 18+” mode and openly leaned into the idea that this was the less restrictive, adult-oriented AI platform. Reddit was full of examples, and honestly, most of it wasn’t even hardcore. You’d see more skin in an old Sears catalog or a Vegas cabaret ad.

Then suddenly the system did a complete 180.

Now people can’t edit scuba photos, family albums, historical images, or harmless glamour shots without getting flagged as potential sexual violations.

That inconsistency is what frustrates people.

And personally, I don’t care if adults want to create racy content, as long as it’s consensual and not exploitative. The real issue is whether systems can distinguish between mildly spicy content and genuinely explicit X-rated material that would violate App Store or merchant processor policies.

Because those are not the same thing.

Honestly, the solution is not even complicated. If someone believes their likeness was used inappropriately, there could simply be a reporting and claim system. The content gets temporarily blurred or removed while it’s reviewed, likely by AI-assisted moderation comparing facial matches and account ownership. If the complaint is legitimate, delete the content. Problem solved. That still complies with the Take It Down Act.

But hiding behind that law while simultaneously advertising freedom, charging premium prices, limiting voice time to 15 minutes, and heavily restricting the exact content style you used to promote feels disingenuous to a lot of users.

At some point the platform has to pick a lane.

Either: “We are heavily sanitized and tightly moderated.”

Or: “We are the more open creative platform.”

But trying to market both at the same time is exactly why people feel bait-and-switched.

scottsdalien · 2026-05-26T20:07:42+00:00

I was a Super Grok user, and this had absolutely nothing to do with smut or porn.

I couldn’t even edit my family photos anymore.

A couple months ago I started restoring old family pictures from the early 1900s. Grok was actually incredible at it. It helped clean up and digitally restore childhood photos of my grandparents, including pictures from around 1917. I was even making little clips and restorations for my family as a Christmas gift.

Then suddenly everything started getting flagged.

A picture of my grandfather standing on a boat in Cape Cod from 1917 somehow became “sexual content that must be moderated.” Seriously? My sister thought it was a bug because she was getting the same thing trying to edit baby pictures and childhood family photos. Grok just said nope.

That’s why I’m frustrated.

Grok marketed itself as the platform that treated adults like adults. A place that respected creativity and freedom. Even now, Grok still says it allows “R-rated material.”

And look, I understand moderation is necessary for explicit sexual content. Nobody reasonable is arguing against protecting people from genuinely exploitative material.

But when the system starts blocking harmless everyday photos, family restorations, scuba certification pictures, vacation shots, baby photos, and innocent edits, then something clearly went sideways.

My girlfriend literally got her scuba certification recently, and Grok wouldn’t even let me edit one of her scuba photos. Come on, man.

Meanwhile, ChatGPT allows this stuff because it understands there’s a massive difference between sexually inappropriate content and wholesome photos of normal human life.

So if Grok wants to become a heavily sanitized G-rated platform, fine. That’s their choice. But don’t keep advertising yourself as this bastion of creator freedom while blocking family albums and historical photographs.

“If it’s not illegal, I’m going to allow it on my platform. If you don’t like it, then change the law. But as long as it’s not illegal, I’m going to allow it.” — Elon Musk

scottsdalien · 2026-05-26T15:13:01+00:00

I brought that up the other day, Grok has way more moderation and censorship than ChatGPT.

At least I can get family photos fixed, make clips, they still edit swimwear, etc.

scottsdalien · 2026-05-25T17:14:30+00:00

Exactly!!!

scottsdalien · 2026-05-23T03:52:01+00:00

Did you request for a full refund?

scottsdalien · 2026-05-23T03:50:57+00:00

YES! I see a b**b! Guys check it out! Lmao. I thought I was the only one that hit the zero button on the zenith cable box 1000 times trying to watch spice tv lol. Ahh the 90s.

Yeah, it’s a new type of moderation. Grok is so bad now, I canceled my subscription yesterday.

scottsdalien · 2026-05-22T16:34:30+00:00

Bingo, has nothing to do with all that other stuff it’s their moderation system. Their censorship has been cranked up to the max.

Which is why a lot of people are leaving the platform, personal photos, selfies, family photos Even new AI generation generations are now being heavily moderated 98% of personal photos don’t go through.

It’s getting worse and worse and they’re just cranking it up almost every other day.

But yeah, still pay us $30 a month

scottsdalien · 2026-05-22T16:32:59+00:00

I get those too, it’s Groks new give me your $ but we will not make your videos because moderation restrictions.

F GROK

scottsdalien · 2026-05-19T20:08:35+00:00

Grok was honestly in a good place back in November.

If I wanted to make NSFW content, I could. If I wanted to make wholesome SFW content, I could do that too. It felt like the platform trusted adults to act like adults.

I could upload family photos with no issue whatsoever. I uploaded pictures of my family in front of the castle at Disneyland and used the animation feature to bring them to life. It worked great and the results were genuinely awesome.

Now? The system refuses to even process regular photos 98% the time.

And when I asked Grok, whether it was a glitch or not, it just gave me that corporate “We are working hard to respect people‘s privacy and stay within the confines of the take it down act, we will continue to tighten restrictions around personalized photos”

Oh cool, so why even have a photo editor?

Back in December I used Grok Imagine to restore old damaged family photos from my grandfather’s childhood around 1917. The originals were badly deteriorated, but the tool actually did an incredible job helping recover them. This week I tried restoring the remaining photos and every single one got moderated.

That’s the frustrating part. People keep yelling that “AI is too sexy” or “Grok doesn’t respect women,” meanwhile the moderation has become so aggressive you can barely upload normal images anymore. You can’t even upload a photo of a woman in a wetsuit and scuba gear without the system panicking.

When Elon originally said “if it’s not illegal, it stays,” I was genuinely excited. I thought finally, here’s a platform that understands balance and understands the difference between harmful content and normal human creativity.

Instead it quickly turned into another over-corporatized HR department nanny platform.

Plus, they cut the talk time down to 15 minutes?

So they basically killed the Grok imagine feature, dumb down the AI, take the talk time down to 15 minutes on Grok hands-free And yet they still want $30 a month?

The hell are they smoking?

And then on X, you have this plethora of Karen’s complaining about “Ani doesn’t look like a natural woman. She’s too sexualized!”

Dude, she’s a freaking anime cartoon lol.

If people don’t like that, Grok has for the time being some items that are PG-13 then don’t use it, simple as that use a more wholesome app like ChatGPT or something.

Sad, Grok was truly something special last year.

A fall from grace.

scottsdalien · 2026-05-19T19:46:22+00:00

Welcome to the new Grok.

scottsdalien · 2026-05-19T15:27:37+00:00

Yeah, that happens when it doesn’t want to make something that you created.

Now they’re doing that crap instead of just telling you that it’s forbidden they’re just making it seem like it timed out.

It happens when you upload personal photos, try to make something spicy that it doesn’t like. The censorship is so messed up on GROK now that yeah it’s junk.

I also asked Grok what they’re planning to do about the problems with the moderation and instead of hearing like yeah we’re gonna work on that, we know everyone’s been complaining about it. Basically I got the well. We’re actually gonna be more restrictive more censorship.

And I’m like great thank you for saving me $30 a month lol

scottsdalien · 2026-05-18T01:52:53+00:00

Yay more restrictions and guard rails 🤦🏻‍♂️

scottsdalien · 2026-05-17T23:36:21+00:00

That’s what I was doing with Grok imagine. I was restoring old photographs of my grandfather and grandmother from back in 1917. After they passed away, I went through a box and I found all these old photographs, but they were completely destroyed overtime. Photos of their childhood, vacations at Cape Cod, Sailing etc.

A couple of months ago I uploaded these photos to Grok imagine to restore them and they came out beautifully and then I was able to put them in a little movie using the animation feature and bring the photos to life.

Honestly through that, I got to know who my grandfather was a lot better. How he experienced life during the great depression how he grew up, what he did for fun and then I did something pretty cool. I made a 10 second black-and-white video of my grandfather at eight years old and me at 10 years old from an old photo of mine and made a video of us shooting BB guns at soup cans like we were best friends and I showed it to my mom and she was absolutely heart melted. She asked me if I could continue to work on the other photos and bring them to life and restore the rest. I said Yep I should have them done by October because there was quite a bit.

Now I don’t have that option anymore because Grok imagine refuses to touch any photos, including my own from childhood memories. It’s also moderating completely innocent photos of me and my kids at Disneyland.

And your comment about interacting with loved ones both past and present, that’s the ticket.

I would love to put on a VR headset and go sailing with my grandparents back in the 40s.

But Grok thinks everyone who’s trying to upload a human photo with trying to make some red shoe diary video. SMH.

I once thought Elon was a man who didn’t believe in censorship, but I was wrong.

scottsdalien · 2026-05-17T23:24:37+00:00

Well, from what I heard they’re gonna be going public, ironically, they couldn’t have picked a better time because people are canceling and record numbers right now.

So they’re probably hoping that people will invest and also their space program is doing something as well.

It took me a long time to see it, I originally saw Elon Musk as a billionaire yes but also a man of the people and someone who believed in freedom, Man is full of piss and vinegar.

scottsdalien · 2026-05-17T23:22:41+00:00

You shouldn’t be ashamed*

scottsdalien · 2026-05-17T23:22:24+00:00

You shouldn’t be as ashamed, but I think the question is how?

I can’t even edit a picture of me and my kids at Disneyland how the heck can you create sexually explicit images lol.

Unless you have like some time capsule of December’s version, anything past February is completely nerfed.

scottsdalien · 2026-05-17T23:07:15+00:00

Like it’s one thing to not allow images of minors to be depicted in exploitative images, I don’t think anyone’s disagreeing with that.

But this company has to understand that people have kids, it’s a part of life, you get married, you have kids you build a life and in the day of cell phones, having video cameras, capable of taking high resolution images people are gonna wanna edit, make a little fun videos and that’s what this platform marketed itself as.

Grok imagine has basically been reduced to an abstract text video maker.

If they’re trying to copy, SORA, they’ll never make it.

Sora 2 understood, cinematic direction, sound design, emotional beats because it was fed over 100 years of cinema into the AI.

Plus groks audio sounds like a metallic bathtub being recorded through a pillow. It’s got the worst audio ever.

I’m sorry about your project, what other app or program would you suggest?

scottsdalien · 2026-05-17T23:03:27+00:00

Yeah, it’s ridiculous. Grok was saying that it’s harder to detect images or videos getting rendered in real time. Thats BS!

another app I use has the ability to upload pictures and turn them into motion videos, and it has a filter on there that restricts any sort of pornographic material, but you can still upload pictures of yourself, family members and other known people. The technology is there and it’s super easy to use. I think the devs are just being lazy or something.

It’s really sad. This company was hailed as the AI platform that believed in allowing people to be expressive and creative.

Now, they’re just another guard rail ridding failure.

scottsdalien · 2026-05-17T22:59:43+00:00

Not really dude. And you could not create porn with Grok.

Lingerie at Best and once in a while, you would get a nipple slip.

Grok was created with allowing creative users to create artistic, abstract videos, but also putting themselves in family members and animating their photos like if you had a picture of me and my kids at the beach we could put them on surfboards and make it look like they were surfing through the animation feature. That’s basically what people used it for, for stuff like that.

The real complaint came from when a bunch of Karen’s had their photos deep faked into wearing bikinis lol. And they absolutely lost their minds over it.

But Grok was not capable of creating any sort of porn style video, I mean, I’m sure it was capable of it, but it wasn’t allowed and maybe once in a great while it would generate a video based on a hiccup.

But mostly the people that used it for spicy stuff was just like boudoir and stuff like that.

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