Why this matters... there's something important happening here that doesn't seem to be generally recognized, based on dearth of X discussions. Only ~5 accounts have mentioned moderation since 6/25, and there's no established topic or group I can find... yet. Sexuality / reproduction is the most powerful force in human affairs and behavior, period. X / Grok / Imagine are leading edge. What better venue to sort out the intersection of sexuality and cognitive constructs like Grok and Imagine?

Technical traders of crypto and securities use oscillators to track ups and downs in price. The idea is to buy on the downs and sell on the ups. Vickies bought Grok Imagine on a high, and now it's crashed down to a low. Yesterday I generated a series of still images for an ambitious five minute short, today those stills are gone, dropped from the project. This is 4th time I've had to look in "Files". I'm not even frustrated any more. Who can say what's really going on, but Sora shut down because compute is expensive. Fun image/video gen is not the most profitable deployment of Elon's compute, he makes way more money renting to Anthropic and Google. Imagine feels like holding a crypto that's destined for zero. We've got lots of active projects, AI and otherwise. We really want to dedicate more of our time to Imagine, but alas. There's no point in moaning or bitching, we we're lucky for a little while. The wizards are leaving, the future for Imagine looks bleak. We'll hang around, this investment hasn't bottomed quite yet.

I had two Heavy accounts, $600/month US, but I upgraded / downgraded as needed, so my costs were more like $200-300/month. Then like many of us I got frustrated and decided to cancel both. At cancel, they offered $100/month for 3 months. So I cancelled one account and have been upgrading downgrading the remaining when I want to generate. Here's my current take. Even labotimized, Grok is still pretty amazing. I got used to a higher level of quality and yes, things are now shite in comparison, but what is possible at shite level continues to intrigue me. To avoid moderation and burning up tokens, I avoid compute prime time which for me (EST) is from 6pm to 11pm. Ask grok when compute is at a premium in your time zone and don't generate then. Some mornings I'm up between 5-7 am to burn up all my Imagine tokens for that day, usually the reset is after midnight. Then I do my other life and come back for more the next morning. I usually get about 100 x 720 videos/day, lots of extends. Back in the day, we shot film and waited days for the film to be processed. We created a 3D render and waited hours for the render to complete. I used to run complex renders all night long. So what's happening with Grok is annoying to be sure, but folks, welcome to the wild west. AI everything is going to be a cluster fuck and if we want to play close to the edge, we might fall off. Complaints are probably registering with corporate as are cancellations, but after complaining, make something with whatever tools are available.

Canceled Grok Heavy before renewal June 1. Feedback - I'm willing to pay, but Grok Imagine is dumb now. Voice sync is terrible, direction following is next to impossible. Significant decline since compute sold to Anthropic, at least that's my impression. Had big plans with Imagine, now moving on.

We're back! Turn the sound on. We started out posting about story as a de-moderation strategy. The epiphany after being out of the Imagine saddle for a month? Story is also our primary turn on. Don't get us wrong, we dig the terrible beauty of the human form undraped, but add a story and bam! Here's an example of creepy/sexy af. Why is authority so appealing?

A brief return to the fray, been surfing other vectors on the supersonic tsunami of surprise. Say hello if you're still excited to demoderate!

Today @elonmusk posted about incentives dictating behavior... So I asked Grok Imagine and Vault Girl to explain the concept to me in a way that I'd understand.

Never say sorry, but we've been slammed with RL projects and also hatching an OpenClaw. Vickies will be back... we're nothing if not indefatigable and sexy AF.

Geek warning. A JSON prompt helper optimized for performance? x.com/VickiesFun/status/2029…