For those who’re actually bored, X’s Grok ...

Is your weekend a bit bare-bones? Right here’s one thing that might entertain you for a minute or two. The chatbot Grok-2 is now free for everyone to fool around with on X. We knew this was coming and, nicely, now it’s right here. Grok it up child.

There are some limitations for many who don’t need 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 image analysis, 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 mistakes, however Grok is particularly prone to them. It says proper on the chat web page that customers ought to “confirm its outputs.” To that finish, it precipitated a stir earlier this yr when the wee bot was caught handing out false election information.

The image-generation part has additionally come underneath fireplace in latest months after it was used to create stuff like Barack Obama doing cocaine and Donald Trump pointing some guns. 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 users as they depart for the greener pastures of Threads, Bluesky or, in uncommon circumstances, actual life. Possibly Elon Musk and cohorts eliminated the Grok paywall to lure again dissatisfied customers. Nevertheless, it’s additionally probably 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 Street Journal that xAI, which lately raised $6 billion in a funding round, is contemplating a standalone Grok app. That is one other factor that the majority huge AI firms already supply.

So in case you’re bored as paste, head on over to your (probably dormant) X account and provides Grok a whirl. I did and it whipped up some photographs of cats consuming spaghetti earlier than I maxed out the question cap. Take a look at the entire spaghetti on that desk. Dangerous kitties!

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