{
  "id": 13910303,
  "title": "Elon Musk gives worst financial advice ever, and the replies are hilarious",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/elon-musk-gives-worst-financial-advice-ever-and-the-replies-are",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-12T07:36:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mashable",
    "slug": "mashable",
    "url": "https://mashable.com/tech/elon-musk-financial-advice"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, recently advised X users on how to leverage the company's AI assistant Grok for online shopping. Musk suggested feeding the AI a photo of their credit card to have Grok scour the internet for the best deal and make the purchase. However, this advice has been met with widespread ridicule and concern from the X community.\n\nDespite XAI's explicit warning against including personal information in prompts, Musk's suggestion may inadvertently expose sensitive data, as credit card photos contain such information. Moreover, Grok's terms state that user data and credentials may be stored in its cloud environment, necessitating human review for financial transactions.\n\nA community note on the X platform highlighted the absurdity of Musk's advice and the potential risks involved. Users even took the conversation a step further, jokingly asking Grok for the CEO's credit card details or suggesting sharing their entire DNA sequence with the bot. The replies ranged from memes and jokes to serious warnings against trusting Musk's advice and posting photos of credit cards online.\n\nThe incident serves as a stark reminder of the importance of safeguarding personal information and the potential dangers of sharing sensitive data online, even with seemingly harmless AI assistants.",
  "summary": "Elon Musk suggests that people should just give photos of their credit card to Grok. His own community dunks on him.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
        "title": "Musk vows ‘affordable’ Starlink in India as he escalates feud with Ambani",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/musk-vows-affordable-starlink-in-india-as-he-escalates-feud-with",
        "published": "2026-10-11T07:57:36.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Hindustan Times",
        "title": "‘Starlink poses security challenges’: Nishikant Dubey hits out at Elon Musk as row escalates",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/starlink-poses-security-challenges-nishikant-dubey-hits-out-at-elon",
        "published": "2026-10-11T08:39:09.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "National Post",
        "title": "Raymond J. de Souza: Elon Musk’s unglorious moment",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/raymond-j-de-souza-elon-musks-unglorious-moment",
        "published": "2026-10-11T10:00:05.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}