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I think the Grok button that is present on tweets is the best way to ask Grok about tweets. Tagging @grok just spams others' timelines with useless AI responses. The Grok button lets you keep it private.

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Personally I think having the option to make grok's response public can be helpful, much like a community note. Let's face it, on reddit or Facebook or YouTube the first thing people do now is go straight to the comments for context or feedback. As they say, the real answer is always in the comments.

Public as the Ai response is often used to mediate two opposing submissions of facts.

A neutral 3rd party.

I like the idea, but it can't possibly be neutral. Both philosophically, and more concretely, it's run by Elon Musk, whose idea of neutrality is waaay to the right of the US Overton window. Not only is it trained on X data, which has swung dramatically rightward since his takeover, he makes sure that it generates a steady stream of edgy opinions and hot takes.

See his just-removed-after-public-outcry instruction to disregard "political correctness", which immediately resulted in it calling itself MechaHitler - or his previous instructions to try to cry about reverse racism in South Africa.

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