Outside the dangerous implications of Grok creating sexualized imagery of real women, it's the epitome of annoying X brain rot. I can’t go more than two posts without a reply from someone asking “@Grok is this true?”
What started as an interesting opportunity to fact check posts with edgy humor (leading to some truly hilarious self-owns from the biggest peddlers of misinformation) has itself turned into a disinformation machine, from briefly claiming that the 2020 election was fraudulent to the deepfake crisis it finds itself in now. By the way, Elon Musk’s big answer to this is not to take the feature down, but to put it behind a paywall…
And while there’s not much keeping me on X outside of following key personalities in computing, the incessant use of Grok to edit people out of pictures based on traits or long-thread pursuits for even a whiff of confirmation bias is just plain annoying.
Well, buckle up, because I have the answer: Un-Grok is here, and it’s a Chrome extension that has saved my timeline.
What is Un-Grok?
Made by Salman Qureshi, Un-Grok checks your X feed in real-time and removes any post mentioning Grok or from Grok itself. Once you strip this stuff away, it helps you go some way toward seeing actual conversation.
Once you’ve added the Chrome extension, you can toggle it on or off at will, and it will filter out any interactions automatically as you scroll.
Of course, as this is a Chrome extension, you’re limited to just any browser sporting Chromium for now. (If you’re not using Google’s official browser, you can download the extension from GitHub.)
You don’t need to use this (but you should)
Now, could this be done by heading into the X privacy settings and muting the keywords (or just blocking @Grok)? Yes, and that's your way around if you're using something like Firefox.
But there’s a more masochistic use for me personally, because with Analytics Mode, you can toggle a counter showing how many posts were removed as you scrolled.
If ever you needed a reminder of just how far X discourse has gone down the toilet, this is a fun way of seeing it — watching that number tick up to triple figures quickly.
Of course, the benefit of blocking Grok via a Chrome extension is a quick switch to turn it back off (rather than having to tweak your privacy settings again).
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