Is your weekend a bit bare-bones? Right here’s one thing that would entertain you for a minute or two. The chatbot Grok-2 is now free for everybody to idiot round with on X. We knew this was coming and, properly, now it’s right here. Grok it up child.
There are some limitations for many who don’t wish to plunk down $8 (or extra) every month for X Premium. The free tier solely permits for ten messages in every two-hour interval. There’s additionally a tough cap on picture evaluation, at three requests per day. This Grok-2 beta will now be the one recreation in X city, because it’s changing the pre-existing Grok-2 mini chatbot.
Look. Grok isn’t probably the most superior chatbot on the planet. All LLMs make errors, however Grok is especially susceptible to them. It says proper on the chat web page that customers ought to “verify its outputs.” To that finish, it prompted a stir earlier this yr when the wee bot was caught handing out false election data.
The image-generation element has additionally come underneath hearth in current months after it was used to create stuff like Barack Obama doing cocaine and Donald Trump pointing some weapons. It has additionally been used to violate copyright, because it created stuff like a picture of Mickey Mouse saluting Adolph Hitler.
It’s no secret that X has been hemorrhaging customers as they depart for the greener pastures of Threads, Bluesky or, in uncommon instances, actual life. Perhaps Elon Musk and cohorts eliminated the Grok paywall to lure again dissatisfied customers. Nonetheless, it’s additionally possible that X made this transfer to higher compete in a crowded market. There are a bunch of free chatbots on the market, together with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude.
It has been reported by the Wall Road Journal that xAI, which lately raised $6 billion in a funding spherical, is contemplating a standalone Grok app. That is one other factor that almost all huge AI corporations already provide.
So in case you’re bored as paste, head on over to your (possible dormant) X account and provides Grok a whirl. I did and it whipped up some photos of cats consuming spaghetti earlier than I maxed out the question cap. Take a look at the entire spaghetti on that desk. Unhealthy kitties!
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