Is your weekend a little boring? Here’s something you can enjoy for a minute or two. Chatbot Grok-2 is now available for everyone to play for free on X. We knew this was coming, and now it’s here. Good luck, baby.
For those who don’t want to shell out $8 (or more) every month for X Premium, there are some limitations. The free tier only allows 10 messages every two hours. Image analysis also has a hard limit of 3 requests per day. This Grok-2 Beta will be the only game in X-Town, as it will replace the existing Grok-2 mini chatbot.
🚨BREAKING: Grok free tier is now available worldwide.
It is very limited:
Can analyze 3 images per day
Send 10 messages per 2 hours including images
Grok 2 mini has also been removed in X.
You can now query only grok 2. pic.twitter.com/pHWsaLgewk
— ̤̮ (@blankspeaker) December 6, 2024
Look. Grok isn’t the most advanced chatbot on the planet. All LLMs make mistakes, but Grok is especially prone to them. The chat page says users should “verify the output”. That’s why the tiny bot caused an uproar earlier this year when it was caught distributing false election information.
The image-generating component has also come under fire in recent months after it was used to create content depicting Barack Obama taking cocaine and Donald Trump pointing a gun. Images of Mickey Mouse saluting Adolf Hitler have also been created and used for copyright infringement.
It’s no secret that X has been hemorrhaging users who leave for Threads, Blue Sky, or, in rare cases, the greener pastures of the real world. Perhaps Elon Musk and his friends removed Grok’s paywall to bring back disgruntled users. However, it is also possible that X made this move to better compete in a crowded market. There are plenty of free chatbots out there, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude.
The Wall Street Journal reported that xAI, which recently raised $6 billion in a funding round, is considering a standalone Grok app. This is also something that most major AI companies already offer.
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So if you’re as bored as Paste, go to your (possibly dormant) X account and give Grok a try. When run, it produced several images of cats eating spaghetti before reaching the query limit. Look at all the spaghetti on that table. Bad kittens!
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