Musk says you can just drop a credit card photo in Grok chat and it will shop for you
TechPreacher · x · 2026-10-14
Elon Musk pitched a new Grok @Bot flow: snap a photo of your credit card, drop it into the chat, and the bot will scour the internet for the best deal on the item you want and order it. The poster mocked the move as showing "security instincts of a rock" — encouraging users to send credit card images into a chatbot raises obvious payment-data security concerns.
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