Elon Musk has announced that X will publish its entire codebase once the company finishes checking it for security vulnerabilities.
The CEO wants outside reviewers to confirm that the released code is the same code running in production.
Musk is promising a level of scrutiny no major social platform has offered in order to provide answers for individuals who have questioned how X ranks posts and moderates content.
What is Elon Musk going to release?
It attracted thousands of developers, reaching 20,000 stars within a day, but it included only a small “mini” AI model, not the full production version, and withheld training data and advertising strategy.
Earlier, in a February 9 post, he announced that X would run “rigorous security tests” of X Chat and then open source all of that code. This also does not have a fixed date for completion.
What are the security risks attached to Elon’s move?
Releasing the full codebase puts every vulnerability, design choice, and shortcut out in the open for anyone to see, and this comes with significant risk.
For a platform as large as X, putting out code with exploitable flaws could be disastrous. The success of this move will depend on how deep the security review goes and how serious the third-party checks turn out to be.
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