Grok Now Speaks Nerd: xAI’s Latest Shitpile Actually Useful for Once
Oh, for fuck’s sake. Just when I thought the AI hype train couldn’t get any more painful, xAI’s Grok has apparently decided to stop being completely useless and learned how to answer questions about Baldur’s Gate 3. Because that’s exactly what humanity needed—another digital dungeon master for the cheeto-dusted masses who can’t be arsed to read a goddamn wiki.
According to the article, Grok has been “significantly improved” at handling RPG mechanics, character builds, and quest solutions. Translation: some poor bastard intern fed it the entire collected works of Fextralife and now it can parrot back optimal Warlock builds without having a seizure. Big fucking whoop. The benchmarks show it’s scoring higher than before, which is like saying a toddler who used to shit on the floor now makes it to the toilet 60% of the time. Progress, I guess.
The real kicker? This is being celebrated as some major breakthrough. Elon’s army of sycophants are probably creaming themselves because their precious AI can finally explain how to get Shadowheart’s pantaloons off without breaking the game. Meanwhile, I’m stuck dealing with actual problems like the mail server shitting itself because some executive opened a phishing email titled “Hot Githyanki Singles in Your Area.”
The article mentions Grok’s integration with X (or whatever the hell we’re calling Twitter this week) lets users get instant answers. Fantastic. Now the same muppets who spend 47 hours arguing about THAC0 can get instant validation for their shitty Minsc-based builds directly in their social media feed. The future is truly here, and it’s fucking insufferable.
Apparently, this is part of xAI’s strategy to make Grok more “personality-driven” and specialized. Because god forbid we have a boring, accurate AI when we can have one that roleplays as a snarky Tiefling while giving you wrong directions to the Mountain Pass. Just what we needed—AI with more attitude. As if dealing with human users wasn’t bad enough.
The piece ends on a triumphant note about how this positions xAI against OpenAI and Google. Sure, guys. You keep telling yourself that mastering a three-year-old video game is the path to artificial general intelligence. I’ll be over here, deleting the 400 support tickets from users who tried to “optimize” their company’s encryption by doing what Grok told them to do in Act 3.
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Anecdote: Had some pimply-faced intern wander into the server room last week asking me why his Paladin/Warlock multiclass wasn’t working. I told him it was because he hadn’t sacrificed a goat to the machine spirits yet. Watched him spend three hours searching procurement for “ritual components” before HR escorted him out. Fucking amateurs.
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