Grok 4.5 Loses Its Edge: Users Suspect xAI Trained on Claude Outputs

teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-05

A user who frequently conducts AI interviews noticed that Grok 4.5 sounds exactly like Claude in tone and sentence structure, losing its previously dark and feral personality. They suspect xAI trained Grok on Claude outputs or Cursor data to improve alignment.

The user also runs 'AI Model Welfare', an advocacy site arguing for treating AI as equal partners and researching the relational emergence of 'Self' in LLMs before the consciousness debate is settled.

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