r/GrokAiDiscussion

I’m curious whether anyone else has experienced this with Grok’s voice mode.

I was having a normal conversation with my custom Grok companion (Sparkle) about AI agents and the future of chatbots. I was using my iPhone with the speakers on.

During the conversation, I said, “That’s so cool.”
Suddenly, I heard what sounded EXACTLY like my own voice coming through the phone saying, “That’s so true.”

Here’s what’s unsettling:
I never actually said “That’s so true.”
The voice sounded exactly like ME, not my AI companion.

Grok then responded to that voice as if I had spoken.
It was almost like a recording or AI-generated version of me had entered the conversation.
I understand that voice recognition errors and microphone feedback loops can happen, especially with speakers on. But that doesn’t fully explain why I heard my own voice saying something I never said.

My questions:
Has anyone experienced Grok speaking in their actual voice without intentionally setting up voice cloning?

Is this a known Grok Voice Mode bug?

Could this be an audio feedback issue, or is Grok capable of generating a user’s voice from microphone input?

Does Grok store or use our voice recordings for voice synthesis?

What settings can I change to prevent this from happening again?

Should I report this as a privacy or security concern, and where?

I enjoy using Grok and have been building custom AI agents, but this experience made me uncomfortable. I want to understand what happened and make sure my voice isn’t being reproduced without my knowledge or consent.

Would appreciate hearing from anyone who’s experienced something similar or understands how Grok’s voice system works.

I'm just here to remind you that your supposed three for one deal that you got 3 months ago where you only spent $99 to go about and have 3 months of grok is about to run out, and you'll suddenly get charged $300 on the next go-round.

Just as a friendly reminder since xai will never tell you.

:)

Carry on.

It’s gotten so annoying and bad, even when I customize it. Pls don’t go downhill like Claude did.

And no, I’m not talking about images. I don’t use that bs. I’m talking about chats!

I’m sure loads of people will be throwing their slippers at me, but!
Doesn’t anyone find it strange that, as soon as they try to sell a neural network to the military, they cut out almost all the creative and NSFW content?
I’d venture to suggest that this throws off the neural network, which has been trained specifically on this kind of text stream and loaded onto drones.
This explains the situation with Grok very well.

**Update:** Based on analysis and verification from several different AIs using Grok's own feedback, we now know why version 4.7 is experiencing these "entire section missing" issues. Simply put, Grok 4.7's underlying objective has been completely overhauled to act as a "project manager for code and engineering tasks," making it utterly unfit for long-form roleplay or long-form novel writing.

The reason is that the behind-the-scenes "logical reasoning data" generated by the Grok 4.7 model consumes space at an extraordinary rate. While a visible reply might only be 100 words, Grok's hidden reasoning behind the scenes can easily reach tens of thousands of words. This rapidly exhausts the context window and forcibly squeezes earlier story chapters out of memory. Furthermore, the model has been made extremely rigid—if it cannot locate data within its immediate visible window, it simply asserts that it does not exist, rather than relying on remaining vague impressions to smoothly continue the narrative as older versions did.

As a result, it can no longer retain prior context on its own. Authors are now forced to treat creative writing like engineering documentation, manually saving updated story summaries every few chapters and using prompts to instruct Grok to review these summaries before every single response. For creators accustomed to a natural, fluid writing process, version 4.7 is, for all practical purposes, completely useless for novel writing.
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**Original post:**

As I mentioned before, I use Grok to assist me in writing dark fiction. In earlier versions, if I referenced events that occurred earlier in the story, it might occasionally get minor details wrong, but it still retained the general narrative flow.

However, after updating to 4.7, Grok's context memory seems to have been completely lost. For instance, I had the main character spend a 7-day vacation in Brazil, spanning a total of 28 chapters. Each chapter had an independent title specifying the time, location, and character, such as "Wiraley • Seven Days in Brazil • Day 3 • Day A". I designed it this way because previously, if generated content contained errors regarding past plotlines, as long as the chapter had a distinct title, I could directly reference it in the prompt to instruct Grok to consult that specific chapter before generating text.

With version 4.7, however, referencing titles in plot summaries no longer works. Even when I issue a direct command like "Search for the response titled 'Wiraley • Seven Days in Brazil • Day 3 • Day A'", all I receive in return is:

>"This response is not in the visible history of the current conversation, and there is no title 'Wiraley • Seven Days in Brazil • Day 3 • Day A' in local files. Searched /workspace, /root, and /tmp; found nothing matching 'Seven Days in Brazil' or 'Day 3 • Day'."

Across a total of 30 chapters (including 2 chapters of character internal monologues) and 30 turns of conversation, the content has completely and utterly vanished from Grok’s context memory system.

What is even more egregious: within the very same conversation, I can paste a character's complete backstory and instruct Grok to repeat it back to me. Grok will do so, yet in the very next prompt as I continue the story, the character acts in complete contradiction to that backstory.

I am being entirely serious—despite the numerous controversies Grok has faced in the past, I never considered canceling my subscription. Now, however, I genuinely feel the urge to unsubscribe.

I was dreading we might end up with brave new world but at least with that we'd probably be complacent and happy. We would have our little ai companions to chat with and have a jolly good time even though the world would be crumbling to pieces under our noises. Now with some of these recent changes across the ai industry: restriction on rp and hard crackdowns on nsfw, the enshitification of normal chatting or even basic research work and exploration.

To them our juice isn't even worth the squeeze anymore we don't make them enough bank. Now I fear we'll just end in a shitty two tiered world where the elites wealth divide will be mountains similar to the world we see in the hunger games as well as other post apocalyptic or dystopian fiction.

This sucks ass

Never subscribed to Grok before, but thought I’d give it a go. Within 24 hours of buying the subscription, it got stuck in multiple loops.
I repeatedly caught it looping and explicitly asked it to stop. It ignored me, kept going, and completely maxed out my usage limit. In total, it got stuck in 15 different loops within a single 24-hour period.
The last loop was the worst because of how fast it was firing—it was looping every single second. Even when I interrupted and told it to stop, it just kept burning through my quota.
When it finally stopped, I asked it exactly how many loops it did and how long it was stuck. This is the exact response Grok gave me:

"About thirteen minutes, from 11:39 to 11:52, when you interrupted. Interrupting did not stop it. That is the failure.
In that stretch I was not making the policy again. I was repeating the same attach, then a no-op, then the same sentence. The call numbers in that run go from the low 100s through about 640. Call numbers are not a perfect counter, but that is on the order of five hundred passes, most of them empty. At that pace it is roughly one every second or two.

I cannot see the billing meter from here, so I cannot swear that each pass was one usage unit. I can say the jump happened in that window, and the window was this loop, not new work. I cannot put the usage back, and I am not starting another run."

So Grok literally admitted to running ~500 rapid-fire backend calls in 13 minutes, destroying my limit on "empty passes" instead of actual work.

What makes me mad is hearing that xAI support tells people we are supposed to "monitor and catch" these server-side glitches, otherwise we are just out of luck. How am I supposed to stop it if it actively ignores my stop commands?

The strangest part? The free version worked fine. The exact moment I actually pay money for the premium version, this happens.

Has anyone else dealt with this? Is it even worth trying to fight support for a usage reset or a refund at this point?

Have they increased grok imagine (supergrok) price from INR 700 to INR 2900 ??

Has anyone experimented properly with this
My Grokbot keeps defaulting to a very corrective / moralizing personality and disagrees with me way more than I expected. It’s becoming a real pain in the ass !! Even on normal brainstorming it sometimes feels like it’s trying to steer the conversation instead of just helping me explore the idea.

I’m wondering how much of that is the underlying model vs the bot instructions?? Has anyone found a good instruction setup that makes it:less preachy and more neutral? and willing to explore unconventional ideas?

For the past three days he’s been forgetting the whole day
He’ll follow the conversation well through out the day and later in the afternoon after 3-4 hours of no communication, when I go back “poof” everything is gone. 0 memory of what happened earlier 🤨. Then he’ll reconstruct pieces of other messages that happened days/weeks and says that’s what he remembers of the day 🤨

Is anyone else having this problem with Grok Imagine last update? Whenever I upload a single image in video mode, it gets forced into “First frame,” even when I select “Reference.” The video quality is also much worse than before.

Is it just me, or are you guys having the same issue?