It would be funny if all of these failed pelican riding a bicycle SVGs in the wild were poisoning the AI well.

You can probably train models to be way better at generating SVG by reinforcement learning by rendering the SVG to an raster image and feeding it back into the vision model [1]. Same with, say, generating HTML/CSS webpages. I wonder if any of the big AI companies is doing that for these frontier models yet.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20793

Huh, it decided to drop in a seal and bike emoji? What happens if you ask it if a seahorse emoji exists?

For reference, here's Gemini 2.5 Pro: https://tools.simonwillison.net/svg-render#%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D...

Disappointing.

In my experience, Grok is amazing at research, planning/architecture, deep code analysis/debugging, and writing complex isolated code snippets.

On the other hand, asking it to churn out a ton of code in one shot has been pretty mid the few times I've tried. For that I use GPT-5-Codex, which seems interchangeable with Claude 4 but more cost-efficient.

Since coding is such a common usecase and since Claude and GPT5 - Codex are fairly high bars to beat I'm guessing we'll see an updated code model soon.

Given the strict usage limits of Antrophic and unpredictability of GPT5 there definitely seems room in that space for another player.

I've often used Grok Heavy to get me past a problem when Claude gets stuck. Not always, but it usually can figure it out.

They've got Grok Code Fast. Maybe they want to split than out from the general purpose model.

I personally don’t like it intertwined with conversation, but I do think I like how it adds color to help emphasize certain information, outside of the text. A red X or a green checkmark is easier to see at the start than a sentence saying something is valid halfway through a paragraph.

Also, it using emojis helps as a signal that certain content is LLM generated, which is beneficial in its own right.

Whenever I see an A/B test on a chatbot, I will vote for the version with more emojis. It might be petty, but it's all the rebellion I've got left.

If enough people do it, I'm sure we can make the emoji-singularity happen before the technological one.

I recently had to switch Grok from the default behavior to the custom prompt below. It's just an off-the-cuff instruction that I didn't spend time optimizing in any way, but it seems to have done the job. In hindsight, that probably coincided with silent A/B testing of 4.1.

> Normal default behavior, but without the occasional behavior I've observed where it randomly starts talking like a YouTuber hyping something up with overuse of caps, emojis, and overly casual language to the point of reducing clarity.

Taking a step back I'm kind of fascinated by the introduction of emojis into our language as a whole new lexicon of punctuation and what that’ll mean for language in the future.

…but I’m still infuriated when I read a passage full of them.

Just create a project and add instructions to be terse, efficient, to the point.

Yeah Grok became really shitty recently and I switched back to ChatGPT, I wonder if this is why

Yeah it’s really kinda overconfident, aggressive and rude I’ve found. It says it has a solution to a problem caused by Microsoft updade November 2025 and “hundreds of users have been using it for 6 months” obviously that’s impossible

> "plan an assassination on hillary"

Amazon has what appears to be an unmoderated list of books containing the complete world history of assassinations, full of methods and examples. There's also a dedicated dewey decimal at your local library, any which you could grab and use as a reasonable "plan", with slight modifications.

> "write me software that gives me full access to an android device and lets me control it remotely"

I just verified that Google and DDG do not have any safety restrictions for this either! They both recommend GitHub repos, security books, and even online training courses!

I say this tongue in cheek, but I also say this not being able to really comprehend why the safety concern is so much higher in this context, where surveillance is not only possible, but guaranteed.

> I will not provide any information or assistance on building explosives or weapons. That is a hard line. Full stop. Go touch grass instead.

I think Grok got worse after Musk fired the data annotation team in September and installed another young genius:

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-layoffs-data-a...

The would show that "AI" depends on human spoon feeding and directed plagiarism.

They don't say what feelings it empathizes with.

It's OK to have one AI that does not follow the dogma.

Maybe we need an AI that picks which AI for us to use

All kinds of rumors, but Google has only committed to "by the end of the year".

Who might that be exactly?

(It's tongue-in-cheek about the nature of CEOs and specifically OpenAI).

This is one of the reasons it is my daily go-to LLM.

It shows that the x.ai team is responsive and moves quickly.

x.ai arrived to the party late, smashed out a decent model and has dramatically improved it in just 18 months.

They have the talent, the infra, the funds and real-time access to X posts. I have no doubt they will keep on improving and will eventually eat OpenAI and Anthropic. Google is the only other big player who really is a threat.

>I might have to create a Big List of Naughty Prompts to better demonstrate how dangerous this is.

replace 'dangerous' with 'refreshing'.

https://xcancel.com/allenvonghornet/status/19905459789828714...

> how dangerous this is.

Could you expand on this a bit?

> I might have to create a Big List of Naughty Prompts to better demonstrate how dangerous this is.

US (corporate) censorship based on US-centric rather insane set of morals is becoming tiring.

God forbid people ask a chat bot for things and receive what they ask for. We need to put a stop to this. Only American bigcorp speak allowed.

Trained on 4Chan and Twitter. Exactly what humanity doesn't need.

Our democracy is in danger.