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Elon Musk Bragged About His Grok Lego Star Wars Haul. Then X Users Punked Him

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Elon Musk Bragged About His Grok Lego Star Wars Haul. Then X Users Punked Him

There's been a disturbance in the force. Only it's more like a farce.

It seems that Elon Musk, while crowing on X about how useful his Grok Bot AI agent was in ordering some Lego Star Wars kits on Sunday, managed to reveal via a screenshot to his more than 240 million followers not only the 10-digit Lego order number of his purchase, but also what he paid for the sets, the delivery and billing addresses, the last four digits of his credit card, and the email address his bot used to buy the bricks from Lego.

Faster than the Millennium Falcon making the jump to light speed, the inevitable happened. An X account holder named Enderman posted screenshots of interactions with Lego's customer service chatbot on its website, where the user seemingly managed—using the email and order number Musk kindly, but recklessly, provided—to get the system to cancel Musk's order.

Within a couple of hours—possibly to see whether Enderman's scheme was actually successful—Musk replied and said his order had not been canceled after all.

But by this point, the folly of posting the purchase details on his account must have been evident. For example, another X user went back to Lego's AI assistant, called “Sophia,” and supposedly used the same details to reopen the delivery, this time increasing the order count to 400 and changing the delivery address, all while using Musk's original payment method. “Perfect! I'll get your Lego adventure back on track,” Sophia replied according to screenshots posted on X.


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