[djyaz1200]

Grok has an advantage in its access to Twitter data.

I imagine soon you'll be able to ask it what the world is talking about today and get some interesting responses.

[srid]

That's a great advantage in theory. In practice, I've never found X integration to work great in practice. For eg., when I asked it to source X posts on Nix related complaints it was only able to find a single niche user,

https://x.com/i/grok/share/Qw5NDq5BINGSBqNg9wrqBjf1y

[melodyogonna]

This is a feature they've already built into Twitter. I tried to extend it to work outside Twitter but still based on Twitter trends, basically allowing people to glance at Grok's summaries of global conversations. Unfortunately the new API pricing for Twitter is prohibitly expensive

[lopis]

This was probably more useful back when everyone was on twitter.

[niceice]

To be fair, it was never everyone. Twitter was always small compared to Facebook and other networks.

It punches above its weight because it's where the cultural elite communicate.

[truthbtold2]

Everyone significant still is

[Panoramix]

A "meager" 600+ million users today

[soulofmischief]

I built this with a pal years ago. Elasticsearch + realtime scraping of large swathes of Twitter, Discord, other chat networks and aggregators, comment systems, news articles, etc. LLM-augmented analysis engine and ontological recovery.

It was pretty cool, but we lacked funding to continue and then everyone closed the hatches after ChatGPT released.

[jasonjmcghee]

You must have a pretty cool unique dataset though

[huhtenberg]

> what the world is talking about today

Not world. Twitter and whoever's left on it.

[giancarlostoro]

I don't know when it was enabled, but on Desktop if you click on the Grok icon on a Tweet, it will tell you all the context. It's been quiet useful to keep up with obscure posts that pop up.

[Noumenon72]

This is one of my quickest adopted AI features. Twitter is one of the most opaque social media because of the character limit and the way it mixes different in-crowds in verbal combat, so explaining the context really makes it more fun to use. They just need to improve the feature with even more training. I feel there is usually one main obscure item that needs explaining and it often explains everything else.

[zelon88]

> I imagine soon you'll be able to ask it what the world is talking about today and get some interesting responses.

You'll get exactly what Elon wants it to say.

[ImJamal]

I don't think so, at least not with the previous version. When asked if it would vote for Trump or Harris, it said Harris

https://x.com/i/grok/share/dideG2pNJEXZmjEtXoISDD8CT

[Palpatineli]

It's actually the opposite. I asked about some details in the current ukraine situation, and it stated mostly facts with a few words critical of Trump. This is about neutral. But it showed pretty strong Keynesian tendency when I asked it about some economic policy issues earlier.

[darthrupert]

I'm not sure if it's practically possible to corrupt the training data that much while still giving sensible answers. After all, reality has a well-known liberal bias.

[ratg13]

I wouldn't call access to hundreds of thousands of posts of "PUSSY IN BIO" an advantage, but to each their own.

[agumonkey]

Isn't twitter mostly low quality text or full blown noise ?

[dartos]

Tbf, everything is mostly low quality or noise.

[henry2023]

Grok - Two Roman salutes were given at the president's inauguration. Nothing else happened today.

[michaelbuckbee]

fwiw - you can do this right now with Grok 2.

[lucisferre]

Can you elaborate? What would you ask it about what people are saying on Twitter and what kind of response would be interesting and potentially valuable?

[MikeOfAu]

Posts often reference people, events, technology, places, etc. Grok effortlessly provides background, counterpoints, etc. I find it amazingly useful.

[moogly]

> Grok has an advantage in its access to Twitter data.

Or is the advantage the other way around? That it has access to Twitter users (the ones that are not bots, that is)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5XN_mJE8Y&t=1005s

[prettyblocks]

I like that Grok actually comes up with a ton of links when you ask it a question, but at the same time I think any ambitious LLM platform wouldn't have too much trouble scraping Twitter/X all the same.

[testfrequency]

That’s a version of the “news” I’d care to never have summarized.

Also seems like a perfect incentive to spread (even more) harmful disinformation.

[BiteCode_dev]

I would love that.

Problem is, it will probably not tell you the truth about it as Twitter has always had censorship one way or the other.

So it will tell you what twitter policy is allowing people to talk about and allowing grok to report.

[soco]

I don't really understand this Twitter (or in general social media) censorship argument. If I call someone on the street a fckin idiot I probably get slapped or even shot in certain places, and everybody will say I called for it. And even without physical violence I can get slapped with a lawsuit and forced to pay damages. Now if I do the same on social media it's suddenly all "muh liberty of expression" if anyone reacts to it. Aren't we maybe having the wrong expectations online, that it would be somehow supporting all the shit we cannot do in real life? Okay I realize this ship already sailed and online people do online all shit not allowed offline, but I rather see the situation as a miserable failure of law enforcement, and not as a hard won right to be an ass to your fellow citizens.

[FredPret]

This would be a huge improvement on some news sites which do little more than regurgitate controversial Tweets (Xeets?)

[smgit]

Not really. See what Claude Shannon has to say about channel capacity of what your brain can digest if Grok finds 8 million things that are happening currently that might be interesting to you.

[isodev]

> the world

Well, a tiny slice of the world - Elon, his supporters, bots and a couple of stray humans posting porn.

[isthisthingon1]

what an interesting prompt

[solumunus]

Twitter data seems awful. Full to the brim with bots and misinformation.