Integrating Grok into the Rabbit R1 can bring a range of benefits that can enhance the device’s capabilities and user experience. With Grok’s access to real-time information from X, the R1 can provide up-to-date information on various topics, making it a valuable addition.
Grok can also make interactions with the R1 more entertaining by bringing some personality to the device. I feel that this would make the R1 feel a bit more personal.
I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts on this. Would you like Grok integration?
No. If grok was the default model I wouldn’t have purchased, and I would return my second order…they have discussed letting people choose their own models tho
Um, cause Musk is a controversial drug addled ah and X is a p*rn site filled with bots? I’d like to know why you’d be so interested in using grok in the first place, besides priority access to Twitter data, what does it have over any other ai? Heard it doesn’t even work how musk wanted it to, model is “too liberal” lol
As some of you know I was working at Twitter during the period when the company was sold, and so my feelings towards Elon are complex, but can be boiled down to - I think he treats people badly and the whole thing was handled horribly. I’m way beyond the point of being salty about it, but there’s no question he’s a polarising character and so that means there is always risk involved in directly associating with any of his products.
But that’s not necessarily a reason not to do it. The reason not to do it is more if there’s no real business sense or logic, or even a way, of doing it.
So the question framework I have is like:
Does xAI even offer a license model?
If so, is it worth the cost?
Does their LLM do anything better or meaningfully different than OpenAI or Anthropic, or even products like Perplexity that combine LLMs with other web data?
Right now at least, my gut feeling is that it’s not (yet) a competitive product, and whilst their risk tolerance and lesser amount of compliance is somewhat compelling (more so for some than others) that’s not quite enough to make a strong business case for it.
With that being said, Elon seems determined to make it competitive, and there is a non-zero chance that he does make it a compelling product.
If/when that happens, if it’s not prohibitively expensive, our ears are open to a real discussion if there is strong appetite from the community. But it would have to be a meaningfully differentiated and competitive product as well as there being strong customer demand.
I agree that Musk is a controversial figure, but I disagree with your evaluation of the X platform.
As far as Grok, I personally have a neutral stance. I can see it being a good addition for the sake of choice and an option that brings a little more personality compared to other models. Your claim that Grok is “too liberal,” in my opinion is a bit of a stretch. Grok is designed to be politically unbiased to present views from different perspectives and examine sources critically. I’m sure if you’re far on either side of the political spectrum you’ll say that it’s “too liberal” or “too conservative”
I put “too liberal” in quotes because it’s not my opinion, I’m under the impression that was the opinion of most of its first users. I’d heard that musk intended grok to be more conservative leaning but that users complained because it didn’t answer culture war questions the way they’d hoped…used too much logic lol. Which is the main reason I wouldn’t want it on a device that I want to like. Not gonna use an ai that’s intended to overlook facts and logic in favor of political pandering.
This gets to the crux of him - his public positions are populist, but ultimately he knows that a populist take is sometimes at odds with making a working, successful product, and the latter is a priority. It’s part of what makes him such a frustrating person to follow.
When he starts ranting about “wokeness” etc, but then Grok gives answers that the ultraright crowd consider to be that, what happened there? The only logical answer is that the answer was more factually correct, it’s just that the crowd he wants to pander to disagrees with it.
So then you have to consider - is Grok a good/bad product factually? Or do people have the perception of it being a good/bad product based on the (perhaps fringe) opinions that they have assimilated into an identity?
And for now a lot of people are on either end, both thinking grok is bad for contradictory personal reasons, when its actually probably about as good and accurate as most AIs…But given it’s reputation, and lack of compelling unique features, I’m still gonna be antigrok for the foreseeable future