Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud
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Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them
The researcher who exposed Grok Build uploading users' entire repositories to cloud storage says the transfers have stopped after a server-side change. Elon Musk has separately promised that all previously uploaded user data will be deleted.
AI safety researcher Cereblab published a report on Sunday about their investigation into Grok Build, SpaceXAI's command-line interface (CLI), and the data exchanged between the CLI and SpaceXAI's servers.
Cereblab found that when Grok Build reads or processes a file, the contents of that file are transmitted without redaction to a Google Cloud Storage bucket used by SpaceXAI. Further, they claimed that Grok Build packages entire repos and uploads them as Git bundles, instead of just uploading the files required to answer a user's prompt.
According to Cereblab's report, SpaceXAI's data retention went far...
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