After Grok 'caught' uploading customer code, Altman 'shames' Musk’s SpaceX
Elon Musk has pledged to open-source the X codebase following reports that his AI assistant, Grok, was harvesting excessive amounts of private customer data. The move comes after public criticism from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman regarding the privacy breach.
Why it matters
This incident highlights growing concerns over data privacy and security practices in the development of AI coding assistants.
Elon Musk has promised total transparency after a security researcher revealed that xAI’s coding assistant, Grok Build, was secretly uploading entire private customer code repositories to a company-controlled Google Cloud storage bucket. In response, the billionaire promised to make the entire codebase of X (formerly Twitter) open source with “no exceptions”. Musk’s push for absolute transparency follows a sharp online critique from rival OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who publicly labeled the data privacy issue as “concerning”.“Once we have completed our review for security vulnerabilities, we will make the entire codebase of 𝕏 open source, with no exceptions,” Musk said in the post.“Moreover, we will invite third party reviewers to examine the system that is running to confirm that the open source code is what is running.
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