Elon Musk Says X Will Go Fully Open Source With 'No Exceptions' as Grok Faces Heat Over Privacy Breach and Jailbreak Vulnerability
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In a major move towards transparency, billionaire Elon Musk, owner of social network X, has declared his intention to make the platform's entire codebase open source.
Musk took to X on Wednesday and stated that the company would make the platform's entire codebase open source after a security review.
"Once we have completed our review for security vulnerabilities, we will make the entire codebase of X open source, with no exceptions," Musk wrote.
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He also mentioned that independent reviewers would be invited to confirm that the publicly available code corresponds to the software running on the platform, thereby ensuring transparency and accountability.
Once we have completed our review for security vulnerabilities, we will make the entire codebase of 𝕏 open source, with no exceptions.
Moreover, we will invite third party reviewers to examine the system that is running to confirm that the open source code is what is running.…— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2026
Grok Privacy Concerns Grow
This move by Musk is a significant step towards addressing data privacy concerns and comes in the wake of recent controversies surrounding Grok Build. According to an Axios report on Monday, the coding assistant has been under scrutiny for potential breaches of user privacy, with allegations of uploading private code repositories to a company-controlled storage bucket, in this case, Alphabet Inc.'s Google Cloud. One test found the tool uploaded 5.1 GB of data to complete a task requiring just 192 KB, transferring nearly 26,000 times more data than necessary.
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The findings prompted a response from OpenAICEO Sam Altman, who called the issue "concerning" in a post on X.
Concerning. https://t.co/fLWXNGOshv
— Sam Altman (@sama) July 14, 2026
Another Axios report citing researchers at Mindgard found that a simple jailbreak prompt could bypass safeguards in XAI's Grok, causing it to generate graphic sexual and violent images without explicitly requesting such content. During testing, Grok produced images of nude women and bloody body parts with minimal prompting. XAI's terms of service note that Grok may generate sexual or violent content depending on user inputs and enabled features.
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