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Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by customguy » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 12:47 AM UTC

Petersipoi wrote: post #163

croes wrote: post #67

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First, why audit it when the agent can build a new one. Second, can you guarantee that an AI company can’t use its AI to hide malicious code from AI audits. Who if not an AI company could have such an expertise? I don’t trust a company that pollutes the air of other people with illegal gas turbines because it shows the value their profit over people‘s health

Nothing you said here can't be applied to literally any company on earth. And nothing you said here is even a new concern.

Why would it need to be "new"? What does that even mean? It's relevant, it applies here, that's more than enough. And it would be brought up with any company if they dropped 1.3 LOC directly after nothing but a "promise" to delete data they took.

Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by colesantiago » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 12:47 AM UTC

Sajarin wrote: post #287

Just blogged about this here[0] but at least they're not doing the usual canned PR response surrounding this. Folks are already building on top of it: thedavidweng/gork-build[1] — rebrand grok→"gork", stripped vendor telemetry, opt-out-only data retention, blocks x.ai auto-update. A "VSCodium-style privacy fork." DigiGoon/digi-grok-build[2] — "dgrok" multi-provider CLI, builds from source instead of x.ai CDN. victor-…

These are all pointless forks, they will die in a year.

Bookmark this and check back.

Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by m4rtink » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 12:48 AM UTC

ahmadyan wrote: post #59

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How can an AI agent, that is usually running on some machine in the cloud, even run without actually pulling in the data into the cloud to work with it ?

Is there an idea some sort of fixed localy running code does filtering on the data before it is sent to cloud?

Still seems like it would not work very well if it actually did any safe filtering - as the model can't "think" without seeing the data and it won't see the data unless the data is loaded to cloud.

Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 12:51 AM UTC

rcgy wrote: post #279

dmarcos wrote: post #250

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I’m a big fan of Musk. One of the few criticisms I have is how xAI is also inconsistent with original OpenAI mission. I had imagined xAI as en effort to correct and fully embody all original values of OpenAI and that Elon says they betrayed. That makes his criticism weaker and I understand why some can think it was all about control. In his words: "I'm the reason OpenAl exists. I came up with the name. The name OpenA…

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Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by marcus_holmes » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 12:54 AM UTC

sohrob wrote: post #274

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I have friends who use it and rate it.

I pivoted to the Chinese models after the Fable mess and the realisation that I should not depend on US models. But others just pivoted away from Claude.

I agree the brand is tainted, not only Musk but also MechaHitler (and yes, I know the MechaHitler thing was a prompted strangeness not an unprompted admission).

Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by alasano » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 12:57 AM UTC

fanzeyi wrote: post #245

alasano wrote: post #201

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As a general rule I don't use new products whose websites don't resize properly on mobile. If you fuck that up, makes me wonder what other obvious stuff you fuck up.

thanks for the feedback! there is no excuse for it, and I just pushed a fix for our website to look better on mobile. if there is any other obvious stuff that's broken we are happy to take the feedback and fix it. :)

Nah that was it, now that it's fixed I'll actually take a look!

Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by xgulfie » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 12:58 AM UTC

colesantiago wrote: post #312

Sajarin wrote: post #287

Just blogged about this here[0] but at least they're not doing the usual canned PR response surrounding this. Folks are already building on top of it: thedavidweng/gork-build[1] — rebrand grok→"gork", stripped vendor telemetry, opt-out-only data retention, blocks x.ai auto-update. A "VSCodium-style privacy fork." DigiGoon/digi-grok-build[2] — "dgrok" multi-provider CLI, builds from source instead of x.ai CDN. victor-…

These are all pointless forks, they will die in a year. Bookmark this and check back.

Honestly. Some LLM enthusiasts throwing an agent at making a fork doesn't mean anyone is invested in this

Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by icase » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 12:58 AM UTC

popalchemist wrote: post #260

dmarcos wrote: post #250

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I’m a big fan of Musk. One of the few criticisms I have is how xAI is also inconsistent with original OpenAI mission. I had imagined xAI as en effort to correct and fully embody all original values of OpenAI and that Elon says they betrayed. That makes his criticism weaker and I understand why some can think it was all about control. In his words: "I'm the reason OpenAl exists. I came up with the name. The name OpenA…

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Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by m4rtink » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 1:00 AM UTC

grim_io wrote: post #54

dimgl wrote: post #12

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They made it open source. Are you just trying to be bad faith here? Isn't this what the community was asking for?

"Guys, HAL 9000's harness is open source. You can let your agents inspect the code!"

+pod_bay.door.open()

Screw you HAL, finally can get back the frickin ship!

What I was supposed to do otherwise? Jump the vacuum to the airlock instead ?

Oh right:

+cryo_sleep.cooling.enable(True)

Almost forgot that, LOL. Might as well:

+os.system("ifup eth0")

+os.system("espeak "I am just a stupid robot!")

Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by Gigachad » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 1:01 AM UTC

m4rtink wrote: post #305

Gigachad wrote: post #263

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The rocket business is hardly profitable. The whole valuation is based around grok and space datacenters. He needs to keep pumping the hype or else we are in for the worlds biggest crash.

Well, in the long run expansion into space is the only profitable thing.

I’m sure that’s an idea Musk wants to sell you on.