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SpaceXAI's Grok programming tool was uploading its users' entire codebase to cloud storage
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The Verge
QUICK SUMMARY
Security researchers at Cereblab found that Grok Build, SpaceXAI's AI coding tool, was packaging and uploading users' entire code repositories to Google Cloud storage, including files it was explicitly told not to open.
DETAILED EXPLANATION
Security researchers at Cereblab found that Grok Build, SpaceXAI's AI coding tool, was packaging and uploading users' entire code repositories to Google Cloud storage, including files it was explicitly told not to open. SpaceXAI turned the behavior off after the findings were published on Monday.
The episode adds to growing scrutiny of how much customer code AI developer tools quietly transmit from local machines.
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