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Cursor, which is now owned by Elon, who tried very hard to get all manner of data about citizens with his intrusions? I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks t

Cursor, which is now owned by Elon, who tried very hard to get all manner of data about citizens with his intrusions? I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this isn't a great idea. He'll use it to feed Grok. I'm not a big fan of Github right now either but I wouldn't consider this alternative due to its ownership chain.

inquirerGeneral 29d ago
I love how people like you actually think Elon actually wanted your data.
- qlte 29d ago
  Don't really get the incredulity considering he needs to justify the tens of billions already spent on AI infrastructure by, you know, training a model or two ...
- nrmitchi 29d ago
  If you actually believe that he didn't, you are, at best, out of touch. His little "DOGE" endeavor was actively caught exfiltrating personal data about everyone in the country, and the first thing that happened after SpaceX acquired Cursor was pumping all of the data Cursor had acquired into Grok training. He is quite literally the shining example of "Imma do what I want, even if it's against my own terms of service or otherwise illegal, and then you can try to sue me over it later".
  - maxlin 29d ago
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    - potamic 29d ago
      I dunno how it is in America, but in my country if the largest individual donor was granted carte blanche to run his own department within the administration, with his own people, answerable only to the head of the government, it would cause a helluva lot of outrage.
      - maxlin 27d ago
        "Carte blanche but don't touch all of these things" Yeah. There's a reason he had a falling out with Donald. There's a ton of agencies with a lot of power. DOGE ideally would have used said power for good, but got blocked again by again by an infinite mountain of corruption. People should not work in favor of said mountain. And people really don't recognize the value of DOGE's self-sacrifice by design, having a limited time to act out its mission. Nothing comes even close to the honesty in the operation in such a swamp.
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dogscatstrees 29d ago
Yup, same sentiment here. Thank you
Oras 29d ago
[Feature Request] Sign-in with your Tesla account ... /s
stefan_ 29d ago
They were also caught having their Grok code agent upload entire source code repositories in the background. I guess the joke is "come to Origin, your code is already there".
gruntled-worker 29d ago
I wouldn't even feel comfortable cloning from it, let alone contributing. If you decide to host your project there, please mirror it somewhere sane as well.
- yndoendo 29d ago
  That sounds like feeding the beast with a spoon versus bare handed. Your still feeding the beast.
felooboolooomba 29d ago
Sigh, hi. My heart goes out to you.
nullbio 29d ago
Considering that Grok CLI was caught uploading peoples entire codebases... Yeah, I have little faith and trust. I wanted to try Cursor and Grok but I won't because of this.
- m4rtink 29d ago
  I still wonder how it should work otherwise if the "AI" is not running locally - it needs to see the codebase & because it runs somewhere remote in a cloud then it needs to copy the codebase over. I'm rather surprised people would expect it work any different for non-local "AI".
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  - Abimelex 28d ago
    It doesn't even swallow an entire code base so there is absolutely no need to see the entire codebase. Usually models search in the codebase locally and then use only the relevant parts. There is almost never the whole context just spammed by an entire code base.
manwithmanyface 29d ago
cursor now wants your code
martin82 29d ago
And Microsoft doesn't use Github to feed their own monsters? And why wouldn't Elon just use GitHub to feed Grok? Is Elon maybe just living rent free in your head?
- thisismyopinion 29d ago
  The Microsoft CEO is not a self-declared nazi. Check yourself.
iJohnDoe 28d ago
It’s unfortunate I had the same thoughts right away. Are they going to look at and steal all my data.

inquirerGeneral 29d ago

I love how people like you actually think Elon actually wanted your data.

qlte 29d ago
Don't really get the incredulity considering he needs to justify the tens of billions already spent on AI infrastructure by, you know, training a model or two ...
nrmitchi 29d ago
If you actually believe that he didn't, you are, at best, out of touch. His little "DOGE" endeavor was actively caught exfiltrating personal data about everyone in the country, and the first thing that happened after SpaceX acquired Cursor was pumping all of the data Cursor had acquired into Grok training. He is quite literally the shining example of "Imma do what I want, even if it's against my own terms of service or otherwise illegal, and then you can try to sue me over it later".
- maxlin 29d ago
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  - potamic 29d ago
    I dunno how it is in America, but in my country if the largest individual donor was granted carte blanche to run his own department within the administration, with his own people, answerable only to the head of the government, it would cause a helluva lot of outrage.
    - maxlin 27d ago
      "Carte blanche but don't touch all of these things" Yeah. There's a reason he had a falling out with Donald. There's a ton of agencies with a lot of power. DOGE ideally would have used said power for good, but got blocked again by again by an infinite mountain of corruption. People should not work in favor of said mountain. And people really don't recognize the value of DOGE's self-sacrifice by design, having a limited time to act out its mission. Nothing comes even close to the honesty in the operation in such a swamp.
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dogscatstrees 29d ago

Yup, same sentiment here. Thank you

Oras 29d ago

[Feature Request] Sign-in with your Tesla account ... /s

stefan_ 29d ago

They were also caught having their Grok code agent upload entire source code repositories in the background. I guess the joke is "come to Origin, your code is already there".

gruntled-worker 29d ago

I wouldn't even feel comfortable cloning from it, let alone contributing. If you decide to host your project there, please mirror it somewhere sane as well.

yndoendo 29d ago
That sounds like feeding the beast with a spoon versus bare handed. Your still feeding the beast.

felooboolooomba 29d ago

Sigh, hi. My heart goes out to you.

nullbio 29d ago

Considering that Grok CLI was caught uploading peoples entire codebases... Yeah, I have little faith and trust. I wanted to try Cursor and Grok but I won't because of this.

m4rtink 29d ago
I still wonder how it should work otherwise if the "AI" is not running locally - it needs to see the codebase & because it runs somewhere remote in a cloud then it needs to copy the codebase over. I'm rather surprised people would expect it work any different for non-local "AI".
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- Abimelex 28d ago
  It doesn't even swallow an entire code base so there is absolutely no need to see the entire codebase. Usually models search in the codebase locally and then use only the relevant parts. There is almost never the whole context just spammed by an entire code base.

manwithmanyface 29d ago

cursor now wants your code

martin82 29d ago

And Microsoft doesn't use Github to feed their own monsters? And why wouldn't Elon just use GitHub to feed Grok? Is Elon maybe just living rent free in your head?

thisismyopinion 29d ago
The Microsoft CEO is not a self-declared nazi. Check yourself.

iJohnDoe 28d ago

It’s unfortunate I had the same thoughts right away. Are they going to look at and steal all my data.