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X’s Grok chatbot has no reason to exist
Grok feels like it’s late to the game.
I’d go on Twitter to find out what that random explosion I heard (fireworks around New York City) was about or why I couldn’t suddenly text my friends while in Puerto Rico (T-Mobile went down in San Juan in 2021). Grok is supposedly “rebellious” and irreverent if you toggle an optional setting, but as my colleague Liz Lopatto has noted, humor is distinctly not its strong point. It answered the simple queries I tested quickly and about as accurately as the competition, but it doesn’t include features you’ll get with other paid services, like ChatGPT Plus’ text-to-image prompts.
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