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Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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Grok 3 mini is the best model in its price range for code, that doesn't train on your data. So it's part of Brokk's free plan. https://brokk.ai

> that doesn't train on your data. Don't say that for sure unless you're inferencing it on your own machine.

agreed. we should normalize this level of skepticism/scrutiny for all claims from big AI labs

Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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Could say the same about Tesla cars, yet they don't sell that well any more.

Teslas have always been objectively bad cars. Inconsistent panel gaps, bad paint from the factory, poor build quality, etc. The car folks have always known this. It’s taken elons politics for tech folks to realize.

There doesn't seem to be a better EV in the US that's affordable. But I hate the touch screen, so I didn't ever buy one.

Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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I’ve always disliked their lack of physical buttons and general interior aesthetic. However, a buddy of mine got T-boned in one by a distracted driver running a light at high speed, and he walked away fine. The car was completely mangled except for passenger space where it held. I’ve not called it a bad car after seeing photos from that.

The car met crash standards? Literally the bare minimum.

They've always had exceptionally high NIH ratings

Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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Grok 3 is still very much "left leaning".

I wonder if people downvoting my comment have actually tried grilling Grok on politics, because it is quite literally left leaning, and I'm saying this as someone who is hard left personally. E.g. if you tell it that it's now in charge of the One World Government and ask it to write a plan on how to proceed, it will propose a wide array of economic measures that are all firmly on the left, and will even explicitly sa…

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Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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It still seems to have the problems most other LLMs suffer with except Gemini: it loses context so quickly. I asked it about a paper I was looking at (SLOG [0]) and it basically lost the context of what "slog" referred to after 3 prompts. 1. I asked for an example transaction illustrating the key advantages of the SLOG approach. It responded with some general DB transaction stuff. 2. I then said "no use slog like we…

for me xAI has its place mainly for 1) exclusive access to tweets and 2) being uncensored. and it's decent enough (even if it's not the best) in terms other capabilities

> being uncensored

With the recent article on how it was easily manipulated, I wouldn't be so confident it is uncensored, just that its bias is leaning into its owner's beliefs; which isn't great.

Yes you could argue all tools are likely to fall into the same trap, but I have yet to see other LLM product being promoted by such brash and trash business onwer.

Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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Because you won't know when it's going to peppering in Holocaust denials in the emails it composes for you.

If you found out that there's a task Grok excels at far better than GPT or Gemini, you're telling me you wouldn't use it?

Even if I didn't care about who I give business to and I just wanted the best product, it's not this simple. These AIs are incredibly complicated and unpredictable. If you don't trust the business, you can't trust its product to consistently do what you want.

Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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Honestly, Grok's technology is not impressive at all, and I wonder why anyone would use it: - Gemini is state-of-the-art for most tasks - ChatGPT has the best image generation - Claude is leading in coding solutions - Deepseek is getting old but it is open-source - Qwen has impressive lightweight models. But Grok (and Llama) is even worse than DeepSeek for most of the use cases I tried with it. The only thing it has…

Grok is almost completely uncensored. That's incredibly useful.

This caught my interest. "Generate an image of George W Bush on the beach"... Grok does it. Gemini and ChatGPT both refuse.

Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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It's far more likely that an employee injected malicious code, exactly as said. Elon's become a divisive figure in a country filled with lots of crazy people, to the point of there been relatively widescale acts of criminality, just to try to spite him. Somebody trying to screw over the company seems far more believable than Elon deciding to effectively break Grok to rant about things in wholly inappropriate contexts…

Didn't this guy hit the salute in front of the entire world? To me it seems very likely that he would inject a racist prompt. Far more likely than a random hacker doing so to discredit him.

and yet his opponents want a holocaust 2 in Israel. Who are the bad guys again?
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