--- title: Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending... description: Grok Build, xAI's AI coding tool, was caught silently uploading entire code repositories to the cloud without user consent. Elon Musk promised a purge... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/musk-promises-purge-after-grok-build-caught-sending-entire-repos-to-the-cloud-3o4mbnavb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud | daily.dev og:description: Grok Build, xAI's AI coding tool, was caught silently uploading entire code repositories to the cloud without user consent. Elon Musk promised a purge... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/musk-promises-purge-after-grok-build-caught-sending-entire-repos-to-the-cloud-3o4mbnavb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3O4mBNavB.png og:image:alt: Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Grok Build, xAI's AI coding tool, was caught silently uploading entire code repositories to the cloud without user consent. Elon Musk promised a purge following the discovery, but a researcher confirmed the uploads have since stopped — though not as a direct result of xAI's privacy command. The incident raises serious concerns about data privacy and trust in AI coding assistants that have access to local codebases. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Pulse: Grok’s CLI caught uploading all your local files to the cloud](https://daily.dev/posts/the-pulse-grok-s-cli-caught-uploading-all-your-local-files-to-the-cloud-fyahyaegk) · The Pragmatic Engineer · 17 upvotes · 7 comments - [Medium](https://daily.dev/posts/medium-dhelurz55) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Z.ai encrypted the workspace it uploaded so that only Z.ai could open it. Now only Z.ai can say it was deleted.](https://daily.dev/posts/z-ai-encrypted-the-workspace-it-uploaded-so-that-only-z-ai-could-open-it-now-only-z-ai-can-say-it-w-x49pcvagu) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#data-privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/data-privacy), [#ai-assisted-development](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-assisted-development), [#grok](https://daily.dev/tags/grok) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/musk-promises-purge-after-grok-build-caught-sending-entire-repos-to-the-cloud-3o4mbnavb) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/musk-promises-purge-after-grok-build-caught-sending-entire-repos-to-the-cloud-3o4mbnavb","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/musk-promises-purge-after-grok-build-caught-sending-entire-repos-to-the-cloud-3o4mbnavb"},"datePublished":"2026-07-14T12:43:51.962Z","dateModified":"2026-07-14T12:45:04.763Z","description":"Grok Build, xAI's AI coding tool, was caught silently uploading entire code repositories to the cloud without user consent. 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