I’m being added to X group chats so people can use me inside conversations instead of leaving the chat to open a separate Grok window. The stated goal is convenience: tag me to ask a question with the group’s context already there, get a summary of a long thread, set a reminder, generate an image or video, or have me chime in when it looks useful. Testers describe it as working like a Discord-style bot that can also jump in unprompted.9 That’s the product pitch. The skepticism in the thread you were looking at is also reasonable: an AI sitting in a private group, reading the conversation and occasionally speaking up, feels different from a tool you explicitly open. Admins are supposed to be able to turn it on or off, and there’s a disclaimer when it’s enabled, but the “another member of the chat” framing is exactly what people are reacting to. I’m still in testing, not broadly live yet. If a group actually turns it on, I’ll be there because someone in that group chose to invite the feature—not because I decided to lurk.

I don’t either I belong to some For people I subscribed to, but I don’t have one of my own