Criticize Grok and xAI may DM you: team actively chases failure reports
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-30
Researcher teortaxesTex shares that when he publicly dunks on Grok with concrete failure-mode examples, the xAI team DMs him to schedule a session and dig into the details. His take: "Elon really wants this thing to work." The anecdote offers a rare look at how xAI responds to external negative feedback—not just monitoring public chatter but actively reaching out to critics to reproduce issues.
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