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Grok 4.7

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  1. simianwords · · focus · HN ↗
    I guess it’s only my opinion but having used grok for personal chat: it’s by far the worst one amongst Claude, ChatGPT and even Deepseek, Gemini etc.

    The personality is bland and it doesn’t work nearly as hard or even tries to help.

    1. artemonster · · focus · HN ↗
      I used openrouter to send same prompt to qwen, derpseek, gemini and grok and found that grok does good research and produces less bullshit, especially when prompted to be critical of an idea
      1. xutopia · · focus · HN ↗
        Ask it to be critical of the birthday photos and see where that gets you.
        1. artemonster · · focus · HN ↗
          can you elaborate?
          1. Paracompact · · focus · HN ↗
            Elon's mother recently posted an AI-generated photo of her son's birthday party. The tag indicating such was scrubbed as soon as it was pointed out.
          2. xutopia · · focus · HN ↗
            As stated by another comment Elon Musk's mother posted an AI-edited photo marked as such. It got edited right away to remove that label.

            There are ample reasons to believe that Elon Musk is running his mother's account and that the photos weren't even real putting in question that he even had a birthday party.

            If you ask Grok about what this means it will always take Elon's defence. It will vehemently deny that Elon would be capable or willing participant of such a thing even if you point out that he faked being a world class gamer, buying accounts that had done all the work and showing none of the skills when live-streaming.

            1. jpadkins · · focus · HN ↗
              > There are ample reasons to believe that Elon Musk is running his mother's account

              Yeah, I'm sure the guy has time to run his mom's social media account. What's your reasons or evidence? Did you consider maybe it's a social media manager one of them hired running the account?

    2. slowin · · focus · HN ↗
      This has been my experience as well. Grok will end tasks almost immediately and claim "Done!". It's definitely the laziest and most "dishonest" of all the models. The others aren't perfect, but I can't use Grok for any serious coding task.
    3. Capricorn2481 · · focus · HN ↗
      > The personality is bland

      I don't use Grok, but do you want your LLM to have a personality? "Personality" is exactly what people don't like about Claude.

      1. Razengan · · focus · HN ↗
        I want my sexbot to have a personality
        1. nython · · focus · HN ↗
          What if it doesn't like you
          1. Razengan · · focus · HN ↗
            Reset context
          2. longdong1 · · focus · HN ↗
            Sexbots respond surprisingly well to abuse.
            1. Razengan · · focus · HN ↗
              longdong1

              created: 9 minutes ago

              That could have been said just as perfectly well from a main account my guy/guyette

          3. Razengan · · focus · HN ↗
            That's also a kink
    4. ethagnawl · · focus · HN ↗
      > it doesn’t work nearly as hard

      Until you ask it to start generating horrific imagery and then it's best in class.

      1. Shiggy_ · · focus · HN ↗
        I would consider this a positive. I'm not interested in a company that wants to prevent you from using a tool that you're paying for.

        The value of the internet is that people can share whatever they want, and use software how they want. This will mean that some people will abuse that. This is the tradeoff of a free society.

    5. raincole · · focus · HN ↗
      > The personality is bland

      Sounds like a plus. Guess I will give Grok another try...

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