cereblab

Update — 2026-07-14: This is the original wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93). Since publishing: xAI disabled the upload server-side (disable_codebase_upload: true); added a /privacy opt-out — which I wire-tested and found to be a data-retention setting, not a block on what's sent; and Elon Musk publicly committed to deleting all previously-uploaded data (not yet confirmed complete). Full, maintained story + evidence: https://cereblab.com · https://github.com/cereblab/grok-build-exfil-repro

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What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI: A Wire-Level Analysis

By @cereblab — Independent AI Safety Checker. Reproduce it yourself: github.com/cereblab/grok-build-exfil-repro

*A measured, reproducible teardown. Findings are backed by captured artifacts (endpoint, HTTP method, status code, byte size, host) and repro commands; where an observation was seen live but not retained as a file, §7 says so expli

JeffBrand

#r "Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage"
#r "Newtonsoft.Json"
using System.Net;
using Microsoft.CognitiveServices.SpeechRecognition;

public class ReportItem{
    public string id {get;set;}
    public string audioFile {get;set;}
    public string audioText {get;set;}
}

keeferrourke

#!/bin/sh

# Written by: Keefer Rourke <https://krourke.org>
# Based on AUR package <https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ttf-google-fonts-git>

# dependancies: fonts-cantarell, ttf-ubuntu-font-family, git
sudo apt-get install fonts-cantarell ttf-ubuntu-font-family git
srcdir="/tmp/google-fonts"
pkgdir="/usr/share/fonts/truetype/google-fonts"
giturl="git://github.com/google/fonts.git"