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“Elon Musk told SpaceX staff that Grok will be trained on the sum total of all SpaceX information, in his words: so in a way, it will be trained on you.”

Elon Musk (SpaceX all-hands, posted to X), 12 August 2026

Recorded 15 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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The evidence file for this verdict

5 receipts: 2 support the claim, 0 contradict it, 3 add context. 2 figures on the record, 0 traced to a quoted receipt.

The receipts

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  1. 1Supports the claimthenextweb.com ↗

    We're going to be training Grok on the sum total of all SpaceX information

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  2. 2Contexttech.yahoo.com ↗

    It is not clear what employee data SpaceX is planning to use to train its AI models, or how.

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  3. 3Supports the claimaol.com ↗

    We're going to be training Grok on the sum total of all SpaceX information

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  4. 4Contextmalwarebytes.com ↗

    with no option to opt out on company devices

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  5. 5Contextmalwarebytes.com ↗

    the data wasn't just collected. It was left accessible across thousands of internal data tables, including AI prompts, transcriptions, private conversations

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