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What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis

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These things are all built on the back of stolen content, and they guy running X is a notoriously corrupt billionaire who recently ran an illegal effort to strip food and medical aid from third world countries which has already resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.

I don’t understand why anyone would be surprised that they’re also stealing code from their users. Pay attention to what people like Musk do to those under their power. He will do the same to you in a heartbeat.

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Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't the contents of the repo sent up in the token stream eventually?

I think in this case the tool was sending the contents of the entire folder it was started in, no matter what files the LLM actually read.

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Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't the contents of the repo sent up in the token stream eventually?

More or less, but most harnesses will rely on tools such as grep to only read portions of files. For even a small sized repo, only a small portion would be tokenized and uploaded

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A lot of people are now upset because xai is running a bulk upload instead of a stream upload like oai or Anthropic.

Suddenly they became aware that the AI agents are not actually running on their computers. AI agents are just uploading the shit on some servers for how long they want and in exchange of that you pay them and get some work done.

I am surprised through that nobody is asking if the agents are GDRP compliant or if they are even legal considering they are trained with illegal/copyrighted content or if you are liable for theft because now you own, publish and sell illegal content generated by agents….

Enough ranting…instead of this stuff people should just admit that after social media, AI is the new frontier towards a kind of zero privacy, at least until you can have local AI/if ever.

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These things are all built on the back of stolen content, and they guy running X is a notoriously corrupt billionaire who recently ran an illegal effort to strip food and medical aid from third world countries which has already resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. I don’t understand why anyone would be surprised that they’re also stealing code from their users. Pay attention to what people like Musk do to tho…

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Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't the contents of the repo sent up in the token stream eventually?

The things you allow the LLM to read will obviously be sent as part of a prompt. You can control that though. Reads are tool calls and you can configure permissions for that or be asked every time the agent wants to read something.

This is straight up just uploading your whole working directory. Not as a LLM prompt, but to a Google Storage.

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Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't the contents of the repo sent up in the token stream eventually?

More or less, but most harnesses will rely on tools such as grep to only read portions of files. For even a small sized repo, only a small portion would be tokenized and uploaded

>For even a small sized repo, only a small portion would be tokenized and uploaded

Only on a per-chat basis. Over time, it'll eventually grab the entire repo, or enough of the "secret sauce" that the rest can be reconstructed with AI.

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These things are all built on the back of stolen content, and they guy running X is a notoriously corrupt billionaire who recently ran an illegal effort to strip food and medical aid from third world countries which has already resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. I don’t understand why anyone would be surprised that they’re also stealing code from their users. Pay attention to what people like Musk do to tho…

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You should try getting your news from somewhere other than X and Fox.

You know, I actually suspect musk is much worse that what has been reported, especially given his involvement with Epstein and those other creeps, but I moderated my post to only confirmed and broadly reported facts.

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