X Unveils New Features for Utilizing Its Grok AI Chatbot

You can now receive Grok explainers for profiles and terms within the app.
X Unveils New Features for Utilizing Its Grok AI Chatbot

X has introduced some new ways to use its Grok AI chatbot: for starters, profile analysis is now available to paying X Premium subscribers, as well as the capacity to ask Grok about any term or phrase by highlighting it in the app.

X first previewed its profile analysis option earlier this month, which adds a new "More about this account" option on the profile screen.
It's currently only available on desktop, and again, only to X Premium subscribers (as with Grok overall).

But if you have it, clicking on the button will then offer you an AI-generated summary of the profile, encompassing a general description, an outline of how long the profile has been active, how many followers it has, and what it regularly posts about.
Okay, I'm guessing this one wasn't written by Grok, and that Elon's team had a hand in putting together his own summary profile. But you get the gist of it-the approach is meant to serve the purpose of making you better informed about who is behind each account, and what that individual shares with the world, all in simple summary form.

So why would this be good?

Well, it may help you determine whether to follow a profile or not, and the extra context may even help you find bot and/or ragebait accounts.

For instance, if you get an aggressive reaction to your post, and you go to that profile, you start to tap through to get a Grok summary, and you may later decide the account has only been active for a few weeks, and is thus likely to not be worth your time in response. It may also reveal political leanings, and other possible biases that may help explain their response with added context.

This has some ways in which it may be somewhat helpful but, by and large, we are still waiting for a killer use case for AI in social apps.

Meta's chatbot is mostly a novelty, with a few gimmicks. TikTok's bot experiments look similarly pallid, and I can't fathom why someone would want to chat with "My AI" on Snapchat. Same with Meta's AI bot profiles on Messenger, which respond in a voice that apes a celebrity.

Social media is exactly what I would call social, and how dedicated bot profiles add to that experience, I'm not sure. It's cool they can create things for you, but again, not something I see as a significant value add for most social networks.

Grok profile summaries seem to be nearly identical. And even though it might be kind of cool to see what Grok says about any given profile, it seems really more like a novelty thing anyway, that'll wear off pretty quick.

But there could also be some value I'm missing, not having used it as yet.

In addition, X Premium subscribers can highlight any text in stream, and then ask Grok about it to get an AI-based explanation of that term or sentence.

So, to sum up, if you're one of the million or so people who are paying to use X, you now have a couple of new ways to pose questions to X's AI, which is built on X posts and data.

Groks is accessible to all X Premium and Premium+ subscribers-its not part of the "basic" package.

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2024-10-17 04:17:44