SpaceXAI’s Grok programming tool was uploading its users’ entire codebase to cloud storage
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SpaceXAI’s Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users’ entire codebases to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned it off. The Register reports that Cereblab published findings on Monday showing how the Grok Build CLI was packaging and uploading entire code repositories, “including files it was told not to open and secrets deleted from history,” significantly more data retention than similar tools like Claude Code.
The researchers say that as of Monday, their tests show SpaceXAI’s servers returning a “disable_codebase_upload: true” flag, and the codebase upload “no longer fires.”
Elon Musk responded to the incident in a post on X claiming that all data Grok Build previously uploaded will be “completely and utterly deleted.” Musk also said in a...
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