{"id":3760,"date":"2026-07-14T19:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:40:22","slug":"spacexai-grok-build-repository-upload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=3760","title":{"rendered":"SpaceXAI\u2019s Grok programming tool was uploading its users\u2019 entire codebase to cloud storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">SpaceXAI\u2019s Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users\u2019 entire codebases to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned it off. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/ai-and-ml\/2026\/07\/14\/musk-promises-purge-after-grok-build-caught-sending-entire-repos-to-the-cloud\/5271123\"><em>The Register<\/em><\/a> reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/cereblab.com\/\">Cereblab<\/a> published findings on Monday showing how the Grok Build CLI was packaging and uploading entire code repositories, \u201cincluding files it was told not to open and secrets deleted from history,\u201d significantly more data retention than similar tools like Claude Code.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The researchers say that as of Monday, their tests show SpaceXAI\u2019s servers returning a \u201cdisable_codebase_upload: true\u201d flag, and the codebase upload \u201cno longer fires.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Elon Musk responded to the incident in a post on X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2076739687658496209?s=20\">claiming<\/a> that all data Grok Build previously uploaded will be \u201ccompletely and utterly deleted.\u201d Musk also said in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2076737992689914215?s=20\">a separate post<\/a> that \u201cprivacy settings are always respected,\u201d but asked users to allow SpaceXAI to retain their data, saying it\u2019s \u201chelpful for debugging issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Dr. Lukasz Olejnik, an independent security researcher at King\u2019s College London, confirmed to <em>The Verge<\/em> that this amount of data retention is \u201cexcessive,\u201d adding that the data potentially at risk could include \u201cproprietary source code, information about security vulnerabilities, personal data, infrastructure details, [and] credentials.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">SpaceXAI initially responded to the issue with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceXAI\/status\/2076692402442846289?s=20\">a post<\/a> saying that, \u201cIf [zero data retention] is disabled, the \/privacy command is available in the CLI to disable data retention, which also deletes previously synced data.\u201d However, Cereblab points out that \u201c\/privacy is a per-session retention toggle, not the switch that fixed this, so it shouldn\u2019t be pointed to as the control.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/965600\/spacexai-grok-build-repository-upload\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceXAI\u2019s Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users\u2019 entire codebases to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned it off. 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