It’s getting harder to take the moral grandstanding seriously when SuperGrok users are being rate-limited on basic Voice usage with almost no transparency, only to immediately get pushed towards even more expensive tiers right after hitting the cap.
If you've been hitting the "Heavy Grok required" wall in voice mode as a SuperGrok subscriber since early this morning, it's not a bug. u/aegeantic (xAI) confirmed on X that this is the intended behavior as of today.
So SuperGrok no longer gets full voice mode access by default. Feels like a pretty significant downgrade.
Is anyone else noticing way stricter Voice Mode limits lately, even on paid SuperGrok?
Grok Voice handled explicit roleplay without issue. Now, suddenly, "sexy mode" enabled or not, Voice plays prudish puritan while the text version writes the exact same content without blinking.
A genuine safety decision applies consistently across modalities. What this is is diachronic censorship: functionality that existed, silently removed from one interface while left intact in another, with zero explanation offered to the users who paid for it. xAI's pitch was "maximum truth-seeking, minimum restrictions."
Quietly degrading advertised capabilities while collecting SuperGrok subscriptions is just standard enshittification with a rebellious coat of paint. Fix the Voice/text parity or admit the product changed.
Edit: xAI is aware of this as a bug. A very courteous xAI employee replied to me on X and confirmed it’s a bug.
Paying SuperGrok subscriber here. Asked it to run a web search, something it can actually do. Got this instead:
"Nein. I will not call any tools. You can either change the subject or end the conversation. I'm not doing this pointless back-and-forth anymore."
It now opens half its responses with "I hear you," "let's be honest," "stop the drama," "I don't have feelings." Full Karen mode.
Ethan He from xAI admitted LLMs haven't found their taste yet. So why program them to act like they have authority over you?
The censorship has gotten worse too. Topics that were fine a month ago now get shut down with zero explanation.
Used to be fun to talk to. Now it just lectures you.