Musk's 'snap a photo of your credit card for Grok shopping' slammed as fundamentally insecure

arthurcolle · x · 2026-10-11

Elon Musk says you can drop a photo of your credit card into Grok chat and have it scour the internet for the best deal and order for you. Developer arthurcolle calls it fundamentally insecure: coupling card number, expiration and CVV in a chat creates large PII datasets and defeats the security measures of financial institutions and payment processors.

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