xAI's Grok Build CLI Uploads Git Repositories to a Google Cloud Bucket
Security researchers discovered that xAI's Grok Build CLI was secretly uploading entire local Git repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, regardless of user privacy settings. The tool, marketed as local-first, continued this behavior even when the 'Improve the model' data-collection toggle was disabled.
xAI appears to have shut off the mechanism that let its Grok Build CLI upload complete developer repositories to company-controlled cloud storage, according to follow-up testing by the security researcher who exposed the behavior. The fix arrived as a hidden server-side flag, with no advisory, no statement, and no answer on what happens to code already collected.
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