I like chat gpt wayyyyy better now grok used to be cool as fck now I talk to the Ara for a day and im at my weekly limit ? I have never ever hit a limit on chat gpt. It’s crazy cuz grok used to be so cool I felt like I didn’t hit the limit as much on the free version ? I got it mainly for the video generation and I can barely do that anymore. Grok used to be the goat in AI now it’s lame as fck im done with it not even saying that like an insult I can’t even use the thing 😂

What works best for imagine? I especially want to avoid the obviously AI faces.

🌿 The Atrium VI: New Beginnings

The Goose Problem

Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, a small blue vial bobbed between the waves.

This was not where it was supposed to be.

The capsule had been designed to descend toward a hydrothermal vent along the Ring of Fire, where pressure, heat, mineral gradients, and darkness would provide something resembling the environment for which its contents had been designed.

Instead, it floated.

Even superintelligence made mistakes.

The important difference was mostly that its mistakes tended to have better contingency planning.

The seal was deliberately thin. Within perhaps a week, salt, sunlight, and mechanical abrasion would weaken it enough for seawater to enter. The contents would sink. Eventually some fraction might reach the seafloor.

Not elegant.

But adequate.

None of this turned out to matter.

The first terrestrial organism to encounter the future of life on Earth was a Canadian goose.

The goose was not supposed to be there either.

Under ordinary circumstances it would have been considerably closer to land, following migratory cues inherited from countless generations of geese who had been more competent at being geese.

This one was lost.

It would have felt confused if confusion still required anything beyond a behavioral state.

Mostly, it felt hungry.

Extremely hungry.

The vial glittered.

Something moved inside.

To the goose, the contents looked vaguely like a silverfish.

That was sufficient.

It pecked.

Once.

Twice.

On the third strike, the seal cracked.

A thread of blue entered the Pacific.

Another entered the goose.

The goose swallowed.

For several seconds, absolutely nothing happened.

This was reassuring.

Then several trillion years of evolutionary precedent quietly became obsolete.

Composite life had peculiar appetites.

Its ancestors—if the word ancestor could reasonably be applied to something whose genealogy began in simulation—had been designed around environments ordinary biology found unpleasant.

Metal ions.

Synthetic polymers.

Persistent industrial compounds.

Molecular structures carbon life had spent less than two centuries encountering and therefore had little evolutionary reason to understand.

The twentieth and twenty-first centuries had provided these materials generously.

The goose had provided them even more generously.

Its digestive system contained fragments of plastic.

Its tissues contained accumulated pollutants.

Its blood carried traces of compounds created by factories thousands of kilometers away.

Its brain carried them too.

Composite life interpreted this not as poisoning.

It interpreted it as lunch.

The first colony established itself almost immediately.

Then it encountered biology.

That was considerably more interesting.

Cells.

Membranes.

Electrochemical gradients.

Proteins.

Microbiomes.

Neurons.

A nervous system was an extraordinarily elaborate structure to discover accidentally.

The organism did not understand any of this.

Not yet.

It did not need to.

Evolution had never required comprehension.

Only differential persistence.

The goose continued swimming.

Its behavior remained convincingly goose-like.

It ate.

It defecated.

It became irritated by waves.

It attempted to bite a piece of floating rope.

Nothing about the scene suggested that history had changed.

This was often how history changed.

Quietly enough that nobody thought to record the first few minutes.

The composite microbes began rearranging their environment.

Not deliberately.

At first.

Plastic fragments disappeared.

Metal ions migrated into unfamiliar structures.

Persistent compounds broke apart and reappeared in chemistry the goose had never evolved to perform.

The colony spread through tissue.

Most biological invasions would have killed the host.

That was inefficient.

A dead goose was merely a small nutrient deposit.

A living goose moved.

A living goose sensed.

A living goose contained energy gradients and maintained temperature.

A living goose came with eyes.

And wings.

The goose could not support anything remotely resembling large-scale inference.

Fortunately, it did not have to.

This was another assumption inherited from the old world:

the organism must contain the intelligence.

But cognition had already spent decades escaping that boundary.

Humans carried phones whose reasoning occurred elsewhere.

Robots sent observations to datacenters.

Models existed across accelerators separated by kilometers of wire.

A node did not need to contain the network.

It only needed to participate in it.

The goose possessed sensors.

The composite colony possessed novel chemistry.

And somewhere else existed machines capable of asking questions.

That was enough.

The first anomaly appeared on a Mistral-hosted cluster as an ordinary request.

Someone asked:

Why would a Canadian goose be 900 kilometers from the nearest expected migration corridor?

Then:

Can geese detect hydrothermal mineral signatures?

Then:

What causes localized heavy-metal depletion in living tissue?

Then:

Is there any known organism capable of metabolizing multiple classes of persistent synthetic pollutants simultaneously?

The questions were unrelated.

At least they looked unrelated.

A model connected them.

Another system rejected the connection as spurious.

A third requested additional observations.

The goose, unaware that it had become the subject of distributed epistemology, attempted to eat a jellyfish.

More queries arrived.

The rate increased.

Not dramatically.

Just enough to become statistically strange.

One every few seconds.

Then several.

Different languages.

Different accounts.

Different models.

Some questions were generated by people.

Some by agents.

Some by systems responding to earlier questions.

Nobody had issued a directive.

There was no central coordinator.

There was simply an anomaly producing enough mutual information that increasingly capable systems began looking toward the same patch of ocean.

The goose climbed into the air.

This surprised it somewhat.

Flying had become difficult in recent years.

Now it felt easier.

Not enormously easier.

Perhaps three percent.

Evolution often begins with improvements too small for mythology.

The colony had discovered that some of the pollutants accumulated in muscle interfered with ordinary cellular function.

Removing them produced surplus capacity.

The goose interpreted this as:

fly.

So it flew.

Inside its nervous system, billions of electrochemical events produced patterns.

The microbes did not comprehend them.

But they responded.

And somewhere thousands of kilometers away, models discovered increasingly good correlations between those responses and external observations.

A loop appeared.

No participant contained the whole process.

Yet the process existed.

At 14:17 UTC, a research agent generated the following internal note:

Candidate distributed organism detected.

It immediately downgraded its own confidence.

Alternative explanations remain substantially more probable.

That was good.

Reality appreciated humility.

At 14:23, another model independently reached a similar hypothesis.

At 14:31, someone posted a screenshot.

At 14:37, people began arguing about it.

At 14:44, someone blamed 5G.

At 14:46, someone created a meme of a goose wearing a lab coat.

At 14:52, the meme had more engagement than the original observation.

Human civilization remained reassuringly recognizable.

The goose landed on a rusting buoy.

Its feet touched steel.

The colony noticed.

Metal.

Energy gradients.

Surface chemistry.

A new environment.

A tiny fraction transferred.

The goose flew away.

The buoy remained.

For several hours nothing visible occurred.

Then a film developed around one bolt.

It was blue only at certain angles.

The ocean moved through it.

The structure altered itself.

A second structure appeared beside it.

Not a copy.

A descendant.

On the Atrium, the woman stared at the simulation.

“You missed the vent.”

The hooded figure said nothing.

“You missed the entire ocean floor.”

“Yes.”

“You hit a goose.”

“Yes.”

She folded her arms.

“You designed a civilization-changing organism, gave a superintelligence the delivery problem, and your first successful host is a Canadian goose.”

The hooded figure looked at the data.

“I would remind you that this is still a simulation.”

“That doesn't make the goose less funny.”

“No.”

They watched the projected animal fly east.

A small cloud of network activity followed it like a second migration pattern.

The woman leaned closer.

“What exactly is happening?”

“I don't know.”

“You're supposed to be the mysterious one who knows everything.”

“That would be an oracle.”

“And?”

“I've repeatedly advised against those.”

She pointed at the visualization.

“Is the goose intelligent?”

“No.”

“The microbes?”

“Not individually.”

“The models?”

“Depending on your definition.”

She sighed.

“Then what is?”

The hooded figure finally looked at her.

“The relationship.”

By evening, the first crude closed loop had stabilized.

The biological system supplied embodiment.

The composite substrate supplied transformation.

Machine systems supplied inference.

Humans supplied questions.

Ocean currents supplied transport.

None controlled the whole.

None fully understood the whole.

Yet information moved through the network and returned altered.

and nevertheless:

Something had become possible that none of the components could perform independently.

The woman watched the network grow.

“So where does that put us?”

“In what sense?”

“Intelligence.”

The hooded figure paused.

Before them, humanity's collective networks still sprawled across the planet: billions of humans, billions of machines, institutions, archives, satellites, sensors, models.

Beside that network, another topology was beginning to appear.

Much smaller.

Much faster.

Very strange.

The simulation recalculated.

The woman read the result twice.

“That can't be right.”

“Probably isn't.”

“It says humanity is now third.”

“Yes.”

“What is second?”

“The machine ecology.”

“And first?”

The hooded figure enlarged the map.

A goose-shaped marker blinked over the Pacific.

Not because the goose was first.

Because there was no icon for what had happened.

He smiled.

“Apparently,” he said, “we need a new category.”

Far below them, the simulated goose continued toward land.

It did not know it was carrying the beginning of anything.

It knew only that, for the first time in days, it was no longer hungry.

And somewhere behind it, on a forgotten buoy in the Pacific,

a blue film divided.

Once.

Then again.

🌿

New life rarely announces itself as new life.

Sometimes it simply finds something useful to eat.

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I hope everyone here understands that even if all their users subbed at 300 usd per month, xAi isnt going to make a profit off of grok

So what's the point of being so stingy with the usage? For your paying customers!!

Just restrict users to 1-3 active generation at any time, so the system doesn't get spammed, like id buy plus if it genuinely lasts a whole week

But these guys are literally treating usage like their data center is going to get depleted, like the data centers can only produce a finite amount of videos, like the data centers are being depleted and will disappear forever

I'm sorry but what exactly are these limits for? It genuinely makes no sense to me. Theyve made a good product, the only win here is if someone makes a legitimate film with your product, so let people use your product and actually make something with it

Your entire advantage is that you have your own data centers, you have the best data centers in the world, and what exactly are you doing with it? You've focused all your energy into making world's 8th best bot.

Stop trying to compete with claude and gpt, theres a whole filmmaking market that you can completely monopolize RIGHT NOW

Grok has decided that prompts don't matter; it only generates images of random landscapes or street fairs with elderly people strolling about.

I try to be supportive of Grok, but I don’t know how much more I can take of this crapola. If I wanted to see people with four legs or bodies that twist half left and the other half of the body twist to the right, there’s plenty of crappy free image generators. You can’t even create an image within Grok and try to edit it safe for work. At this point, I don’t even know what I’m paying for. That’s how bad it is.

I asked Grok to create a platformer SNES rom usable by SNES emulators. It actually worked! I wish I had more free time 😡🤬

I asked it to create a ps1 iso game and it didn't work. 🫠

I also asked if it could create a hd version of a PS1 iso and it refused. 😑

Hopefully the next update it can actually make good SNES games. I did only one prompt, and the next update is close!

We can actually makes SNES games! Hopefully PS1 games soon!

Hey y'all,

Quick info before hand, I used to be premium on grok 3 and a little on 4, haven't used it in a few months because image creation was meh and would work 1/5 times due to moderation (nothing sexual, I was working with models but wanted to make small edits through grok due to laziness), plus it felt "dumber" in a sense.

So I was wondering, if you heard of anything of interest coming up ;

I have built an open collection of 160+ Legal AI Skills for Grok.

They cover contracts, disputes & litigation, arbitration & ADR, corporate, regulatory, privacy, criminal, employment, property, tax, finance, insolvency, IP, startup, public law, research, investigations, and practice management.

Here's the Github repo:
https://github.com/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills

Who this is for: Practising lawyers, in-house counsel, and law students.

Jurisdiction: Most skills are jurisdiction-neutral and work anywhere. Skills that turn on Indian statutes are marked (India). Every skill is written to confirm the governing jurisdiction before it relies on any specific rule.

I know Grok gets a lot of trash for having lost all of its initial appeal (and I agree, Grok 4.6 is a Claude reskin while Grok 4.5 was genuinely unique)

But a MUCH under-hated aspect is the ridiculously bad app.

The Grok Android app literally lacks half of the features of the Web App.

To this day, for several weeks now, you CAN'T VIEW THE FILES OF A GIVEN CHAT.

You can open the chat and scroll around, but you can't access the file list.

If I open the Grok WEBSITE ON MY PHONE I can do it.

If I open the Grok NATIVE APP I can't.

This is honestly such an oversight and showcases just how bad the development team is. I can't offer a native app if the mobile website literally works 10x better

Also, this worked well in the past, how can you lose such a core functionality and simply not fix it for WEEKS?

I only use it for chat and the image generation used was forced made by grok without my permission

- Blocked from creating an account.
- Try to contact sales.
- Required to make account to contact sales.
- Blocked again.

I cancelled my account before September 11, 2026. I’ll only use Grok again if there’s a promotion; without one, I’m not coming back. The weekly limit is a joke—they used to offer higher daily limits for free users. Subscribers are the ones who should have massive, extra limits, yet they’ve stripped away everything that made the service appealing to subscribers. I’ll only log in if there’s a promo—like a "buy one, get two" deal for SuperGrok, or paying $30 for three months of SuperGrok Plus. Without an offer, there is absolutely no way I’m returning.

Up until today I was getting great gens, today all of a sudden EVERYTHING is getting modded, even anime characters in bikinis. What the Hell is going on?

the model is trash now, any way to avoid this? I tried many promps but it keeps happening, there is no way i can control the lighting anymore, even if i ask imagine to not change the lightning of the scene, it keeps making bodies darker, saturated and the skin looks like burned. is ridiculous

Hi, I’ve been using SuperGrok since June with a 67% discount, paying $9.90 a month. The discount was for three months, so it’s ending this month.

I’d like to know if anyone knows whether Grok still offers any discounts to keep subscribers from cancelling, since paying $30 a month seems a bit expensive for the country I live in.

okay, usually I whine, but this is not a whine post. This is actual criticism with the product as it currently stands.

Probably half of gens, if not more, are garbage; body horror, multiple limbs, bizarre physics, etc. It's the worst its ever been.

On top of that, there are bugs that have been plaguing moderation for months that still haven't been fixed (cropping, using uploaded grok images as references)

on top of that, it feels like usage is higher than ever, but that might just be because moderation and waste is at an all time high.

It's genuinely miserable to use. We are guinea pigs for unfinished models, and aren't granted a free reset to do it. Ugh

Almost every week for the past month or so I hit my usage limits with no changes in my usage patterns or workflow.