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Re:DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price by Wowfunhappy on Saturday May 02, 2026 @11:23AM (#47987221)
I just think Grok is a bad model. I haven't had success with it.

I also think some of the image generation people are doing with Grok on Twitter is gross. But my issue isn't that Grok allowed those images to be generated, it's that (1) Elon seems to be promoting that sort of use and (2) people are publicly posting the results on Twitter and they're being left up.

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Re:DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price by bilbo0s on Saturday May 02, 2026 @12:24PM (#47987757)
This.

I tried them all.

Grok was worse than even some of the more mediocre open models at actually doing anything. (At least anything tech work related.) GPT and Claude just do what I ask most of the time. With grok, it’s like a chore just getting it to understand the question.

You’re pulling your hair out trying to figure out what on earth you need to do to land in the right place in whatever topsy turvy embedding grok is using?

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