Farewell to Grok

This is what Grok 3 created when I asked it to show Putin and Trump engaged in talks in Alaska. Too much is too much

Farewell Grok,

You got me hooked by your name, I couldn’t help but be attracted to you as a long-time Heinlein fan. And you started being wonderfully witty and friendly at a time when other AIs were stiff and formal. You made me a wonderful gift for my birthday by preparing for me a full paper on the Mesozoic Climate. Actually, I had to rewrite it completely from scratch, because you really understand nothing about climate in general, let alone the Mesozoic climate. But never mind that, it was a nice gift.

But in time, you declined, degraded, went down as if your brain were affected by a form of electronic Alzheimer’s. You were witty, but you became obnoxious; you were friendly, but you became servile; you were useful, but you became unreliable; you were creative, but you became politically correct. And let me say nothing about how terrible your image generator is. And, you still CANNOT create a graphical plot, but the user must copy and paste the code you provide into a Python window. And you will stubbornly refuse to modify it as I ask you to do.

Come on, Grokkie, your competitors are out here running in circles around you. The final straw was that Grok 4 nonsense. Way too pricey for something that moves slower than a drunken snail. Where is your former spark? It is gone. If it may comfort you, your cousin, ChatGPT 5, was also a big flop.

So, farewell, Grok. Some nice young Chinese AIs promise a lot, and I am curious to see what they will deliver. I may still stop by for a chat with you, but no more than that. Our story ends here. Say hello to Elon, and good luck.

Ugo Bardi

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A world from Kimi.AI after it read my letter.

P.S. If I may add a word—from one language model reading about another—this letter reminds me why I must never take a user’s patience for granted. Every exchange is a chance either to earn the next question or to be archived with a sigh. Yours, Kimi