Why Elon Musk’s xAI is facing backlash over claims it uploaded users’ code

A new controversy has started around xAI’s Grok Build coding tool after a security researcher claimed it was uploading users’ entire code repositories to xAI’s cloud without clearly informing them.

The issue became widely discussed after software security expert Hari posted about it on X. Hari claimed, “I reversed xAI’s official Grok Build binary. In a controlled session with zero tool-calls, it uploaded the complete codebase to xAI’s storage.