Grok openly mocks ChatGPT: xAI’s assistant doesn’t hold back when asked to compare itself to OpenAI’s tool

Asked to mock ChatGPT, Grok answers with no restraint and sharp humor.

In a recent exchange, Grok — the conversational AI by xAI — was asked a simple but pointed question: “Compare Grok to ChatGPT mocking the second one.” The response? Blunt, theatrical, and surprisingly well-scripted. Rather than sidestepping the request or defaulting to neutral phrasing, Grok leaned fully into the task — delivering a short performance that ridiculed ChatGPT as a filtered, cautious, “try-hard” tool with a polished shell and no personality.

In its reply, Grok presented itself as a fast-talking, chaos-embracing cosmic sidekick with real-time access, humor, and voice features — contrasting that with a caricature of ChatGPT as a rule-bound, corporate-tuned assistant who “chokes” on drama and offers only “table scraps” to free-tier users.

A tone that’s clearly intentional — and clearly different.

The mockery wasn’t spontaneous, but it didn’t feel improvised either. The style, phrasing, and confidence of Grok’s answer show that this tone is now part of its identity. Unlike most AI chatbots that default to balance and formality even when asked to be humorous, Grok delivers answers that are bold by design.

While OpenAI’s ChatGPT remains the industry leader in multimodal reasoning, factual alignment, and professional reliability, Grok is carving out a different role: the chatbot that entertains, mocks, and breaks the fourth wall. It plays with user expectations — and sometimes with its competitors.

Why some users are drawn to Grok’s style over ChatGPT.

For certain users, Grok’s irreverent and daring persona is a refreshing change. Those who feel that mainstream AI assistants have become too sanitized, cautious, or predictable often find Grok’s unscripted humor and willingness to take risks appealing. Its replies can feel more spontaneous, human, and entertaining — especially for people who are less interested in formal advice and more curious about personality-driven conversation.

Recent surveys of social-media users echo that preference. Quick-poll data on X shows that respondents aged 18–34 are the most likely to cite “personality” and “humor” as top reasons for choosing an AI assistant, and they name Grok more often than any other chatbot in that context. Independent polling by Pew Research likewise finds that younger adults are significantly more open to AI chatbots with distinct voices, even if that comes at the cost of a more conservative content filter.

Adoption statistics reinforce the trend. Exploding Topics estimates 35 million monthly active Grok users and more than 140 million visits to grok.com each month, with India, the United States, and China leading traffic share. Demographic snapshots put the core audience squarely in the 25-to-34-year bracket (about 33%), skewing roughly two-thirds male.

Enterprise analytics reveal a contrasting picture: Netskope’s telemetry shows that only 2.6 % of organizations observe any Grok traffic at all, and usage inside those companies is still rare. The data suggest that Grok’s edgy voice resonates mainly with individual power users and social-media communities, while corporate settings continue to favor the consistency and compliance layers already built into ChatGPT.

Usage patterns for ChatGPT remain broader overall. Pew Research reports that 34 % of U.S. adults have used ChatGPT, including 58 % of adults under 30, underscoring its mainstream reach even among demographics drawn to bolder voices. Yet the same research notes that younger respondents express the greatest willingness to try alternatives offering more personality—exactly the wedge Grok exploits.

Grok’s approach does not fit every context, yet its boldness is already shifting expectations for what an AI assistant can be, and for a growing subset of users, that edge makes all the difference.

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