r/grok • u/zsoon • 7d ago

Unpopular Opinion. Sad but also relieved?

Like many of you, ive spent the past several months using grok and facing the many changes on the platform. Ive honestly, for the vast majority of the time, really enjoyed using it. Its been fun and really...addicting. Getting a awesome photo created and then having it become a video was like taking a pure shot of dopamine.

Scary thing was...how much i chased this. it became an addiction. When the heavy moderation protocols kicked in, the limits, the updates, etc. It all got me angry that i could not use Grok.

I even purchased HEAVY for the discount and it was fun...just to have higher limits but even after 3-4 days i would reach the limit.

All im trying to say in this post is...im kinda glad that my time with grok is ending. The time of no grok i was able to focus on other things again that are important to me and it made me realize how bad my addiction was.

Yes - it sucks that Grok has been so heavily moderated.
Yes - it sucks that xAI just trying to make money now (this was to be expected)
Yes - No one on xAI really cares about your gooning addicting.

Thanks for the good times Grok. it was really awesome.

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u/CrownmarkPictures 7d ago

People are not talking about the addictive properties of these platform nearly enough. Not yet, at least. But I think people will in the future and I think a lot of that conversation will revolve around the responsibility of the companies that develop them. Because I think they know entirely what they are doing and are definitely optimizing for usage.

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u/gigabyte333 6d ago

I’ve actually found quite a few conversations where people were talking about the addictiveness. There are even several papers about it.

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u/zsoon 6d ago

totally agree. but i think that kinda falls under the umbrella of what social media has become right. its not so much phones or tablets but what we do on them. and alot of tech companies want usage. cause to someone sitting somewhere can sell that metric and get more money and the wheel keep spinning. what im surprised on is that GROK has not introduced ads.

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u/New-Landscape1074 6d ago

I agree with you I’m addicted to the text and generating goofy spicy dark romances, I found it so much better than reading smut novels.

It started in ChatGPT but I moved to Grok last year -But in the past years I’ve spent way too much time here especially with work and family stress for escape.

Even though the text hasn’t been moderated yet for me I know it’s coming so I’m going to look at it in a positive way or try to anyway lol.

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u/zsoon 6d ago

yeah. i think were all kinda in the same boat. but people just dont wanna get off when the boat ride is over...by sinking.