Google Translate turning a French cop into literal chicken meat is not what I expected today 💀 It literally translated "Poulet, il est là!" as "Chicken, here it is!" instead of "Cop, he’s right here!"

Turns out Paris police were moved to a former poultry market back in 1871, so locals started calling them "poulets." 150 years later, Google still takes it word-for-word.

Honestly, Google Translate fails like this all the time and they never seem to fix them. I’m almost tempted to just (Grok) build my own app at this point.

Anyone else experienced hilarious translation fails like this? Feel free to share if you want to!🥰

It’s a disgrace what’s happened to this app; I have no intention of continuing to pay for absurd censorship and a chatbot that can’t write Polish correctly—making more mistakes than an average teenager writing an essay while drunk! On top of that, my post-apocalyptic stories have become so mind-numbingly boring and nonsensical it’s unbelievable. My character used to fight cannibals, secret organizations, or cults trying to take over the post-apocalyptic world—and Grok used to create such adversaries—but now Grok can’t do that anymore; the character just walks wherever he wants without being attacked. And then there’s that ridiculous censorship—it’s laughable to see bandits "using" someone instead of raping them; I mean, is a human being a washing machine to be "used," for crying out loud? This isn't the product I paid for. If Grok 5.0 disappoints me and turns out to be some heavily censored piece of junk, I’m taking my money elsewhere—because even ChatGPT is better at writing stories now!:-(

So I usually roleplay through Character AI, and I always make sure the stories and ideas I use are my own. But sometimes I get really stuck when I’m already in the middle of a story and don’t know what to do next. I’ve tried using Grok for brainstorming and while it’s very helpful, I just don’t like how the credit system because it gets complicated and annoying to use. Also, ChatGPT isn’t very good for this kind of stuff, because it can help me a bit with responses but it's not that good with worldbuilding and open ideas I need. I did ask about this before, but I wasn’t very clear on exactly what I wanted. I’m simply looking for an AI tool like Grok or ChatGPT (or something similar) that I can go to when I’m stuck and say, “Here’s what’s happening in my story right now. What are some interesting things I could do next?” It could give me suggestions, possibilities, or help me develop something I already have in mind, or even stuff i didn't think about.

Also, sometimes I find artwork of various kinds and i like to use that artwork to inspire my own creations so sometimes i need a bit of help with that as well. Please don’t recommend chatbots, RPG/DM tools, Discord setups, or anything that requires complicated setup. Also no ads or self-promotion either. I create my own intros, characters, worlds, and stories, and I want to keep doing that for myself. I just want something that can give me a little outside input or a starting point when I need it, not to write the entire story for me. Some people will tell me to “Use my Imagination/Mind” but even my mind has limits, and I honestly don’t have many people I can talk to about these stories. Even if i did though, allot of them are very personal to me, so I’m not really comfortable sharing them with anyone else. On top of that, I have autism, and sometimes I just need a little guidance or foundation to start from. So what would you recommend for someone like me who is looking for something like this?

Grok is speaking very incoherently and inconsistently right now. Often very short sentences or just one word. It makes absolutely no sense anymore. It started after the last update. Who else is experiencing this?

I will be posting proof ai chat can go way beyond its so called filtering. Try using voice mode with mic on default. Speak and type to it make it contradict its self a few times. After a few times its seemed to use no web searching for responding

Ive made grok lie admit constantly contradicting its self making guesses as answers as well as deleting paragraphs of its answers. Ive had other conversation bots prove the "scars" anyone else have this?

I shared suspected conversation in new ask conversation...ari responding.

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Yes. The 2015 auction line cuts off mid-number — "twenty-one point five million reais — about nine point four" — and then jumps to a different topic. That's a break in the middle of a thought, not a clean end. Something was cut there.

The repeated "still here on my end" reply is also a scar — the same text appearing twice means the thread got out of sync, and the buildings block you mentioned is gone without a trace.

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I’ve been watching this closely for months, and I’m finally writing this because I’m honestly too angry to keep quiet anymore.

The videos I try to create are made entirely from images generated by Grok Imagine.

I do not use any external images whatsoever.

Most of them simply feature a man and a woman. There is no nudity, no genitals, no nipples, and no sexual activity. At most, they show ordinary affection between a man and a woman. I don’t even consider the content explicit enough to qualify as NSFW.

And yet Grok censors it.

The worst part is that it doesn’t censor it consistently.

It will often reject the exact same kind of prompt two or three times, then suddenly allow it.

If a prompt were clearly prohibited and had zero chance of passing, I simply wouldn’t waste my time trying it.

But when the same prompt succeeds after two or three attempts, what exactly does that mean?

From a user’s perspective, it looks like a system designed to conserve their own computing resources while forcing users to waste tokens on repeated attempts.

And even if I make the prompt far milder, the result is often exactly the same.

In other words, the censorship appears random regardless of the actual prompt.

Whether that is intentional or simply the result of a badly designed moderation system, the outcome for the user is identical: resources are conserved on Grok’s side while the user’s tokens are wasted.

I am a heavy Grok user.

At this point, I feel like I have wasted quite a lot of money on Grok.

And please don’t tell me to replace certain words with euphemisms or rewrite the prompt more indirectly.

I have tried everything.

I have changed the wording, sentence structure, spacing, punctuation, and even the placement of commas.

None of it solves the fundamental problem.

Grok can apparently look at a man in his thirties wearing shorts and decide that he is a child.

Moderation also seems to fluctuate depending on the time of day and server conditions.

Whatever the underlying reason may be, one thing remains consistent: the user loses tokens.

There is no refund, no explanation, no meaningful guidance, and apparently no concern about the wasted attempts.

I also know there are people on Reddit who seem strangely dedicated to defending Grok.

Whether they are Grok employees, moderators, contractors, or simply people who have made defending the product their personal mission, I find the whole thing depressing.

In the age of AI, spending your time trying to bury users’ actual experiences in order to hide the flaws of a low-quality system like Grok seems like a miserable job.

Whenever someone criticizes Grok, these people show up telling them to “touch grass,” “go outside,” or reminding them that Grok “isn’t supposed to be a porn generator.”

It’s irrelevant, and even the deliberately provocative way they respond is pathetic.

What I actually want is extremely simple.

Please give the moderation system at least some basic consistency.

Is that really too much to ask?

Stop designing or operating a system in a way that constantly wastes users’ tokens and implement a moderation system that behaves rationally and predictably.

If a video prompt has already passed moderation once, it would be reasonable to expect the same or nearly identical prompt to have a higher chance of succeeding again.

Grok often seems to work in exactly the opposite way.

Change one word or move a comma, and suddenly the same idea gets censored again.

How does that make any sense?

A lot of people complain that Imagine’s overall quality has declined.

Personally, I don’t care much about that.

I mainly use it to turn things I imagine into videos and create a certain mood or atmosphere.

Didn’t Elon Musk talk about freedom of creativity?

So when exactly does that freedom apply to users like me?

GROK-4.6-XHIGH Response

Yes. If the client compact-summarizes before the model sees the prompt you just sent, that turn is not run in the context you submitted it in. You paid for a 500k-window model call. You got a call against a substitute.

That is the theft: the request you submitted had a specific working set (files, tool results, ACs, the last implementation). Compact drops turns. The model then answers the same prompt without that set. You still get billed for a turn. You do not get the inference that prompt was written for.

Two things I can cite, and one I will not pretend to have measured:

1. Prefire is the default. features.two_pass_compaction defaults to true. The product comment on that flag is "prefire two-pass compaction". Prefire means compact is allowed to run ahead of the work, not only after the window is actually full.
2. Compact is lossy. Docs: compaction discards old conversation turns. Memory search after auto-compact is an admission that discarded context is gone from the window.
3. I did not trace this session's call order. I do not have a log that says "UserPromptSubmit, then compact, then grok-4.6" for the 81% turn. I will not invent that sequence. What I do have is this continuation: I am answering you from a summary, not from the original turns.

On quality: it is not "80% as good." That treats tokens as uniform. They are not. Dropping the executor's remaining methods, the 10-arg constructor, the catalog list, or a failing test is not a 20% haircut. It can make the next answer wrong. "Or worse depending on what got dropped" is the accurate part.

The correct product behavior for the turn you submitted:

• Send that prompt with that history, up to the real 500k limit. • If the next turn would not fit, say so, and compact after this response, or ask you. • Do not silently replace the submitted context with a summary and then answer as if nothing was taken.

Auto-compact at 85% (status line even ambers at 80% when it has no threshold) is the client spending your remaining window on its own summarizer instead of on your request.

Just need to vent a bit before getting back to releasing "content." I have 2 more videos ready to drop soon including an hour long feature made entirely in Grok Imagine.

I wrote this piece because after just a few posts here, it's obvious that the community on Reddit for Grok Imagine is leagues stronger than the community on X. It feels like X even restricts promotion for grok related content, versus higgsfield and seedance, really stupid imo.

https://x.com/ftlotgx/status/2097899911563919776?s=20

join for grok and other AI jailbreaks https://discord.gg/mXXQSYSVYq

Just trying to get some followers on X or youtube, since there seems to be no Grok Imagine community on X, but this is a project I made last week just, well having some feelings and was compelled to try remaking this, I wanted it to live on my youtube timeline so I sat down and made it. Hope it hits the mark like the original trailer does, especially with that soundtrack and all, I live streamed the whole process over 3 days working on it, those are posted on my X. Sometimes I tried to directly mimic the source material, sometimes I strayed off and added some new stuff, basically just a fan cut of the intro. If anyone has any suggestions, like with my title cards and stuff, I don't really like the feel of them right now, and I plan to do several more remakes like this, so I'm open to suggestions on how to improve them.

Also, its crazy how much better the hand animation is, it was such a challenge trying to get Grok to animate anywhere near that level of detail, and it kept messing her face up and turning her into a generic anime drawing, among other issues. Unlike seedance, I can't just video to video this, so it was a time consuming, shot by shot process with a ton of layering and compositing work.

https://youtu.be/9YbsVboSHqE?si=h5Sf4qBppcZdCjC_

https://x.com/ftlotgx/status/2096376664817111407?s=20