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

There's been a disturbance successful the force. Only it's much similar a farce.

It seems that Elon Musk, portion crowing connected X astir however utile his Grok Bot AI agent was successful ordering immoderate Lego Star Wars kits connected Sunday, managed to reveal via a screenshot to his much than 240 cardinal followers not lone the 10-digit Lego bid fig of his purchase, but besides what helium paid for the sets, the transportation and billing addresses, the past 4 digits of his recognition card, and the email code his bot utilized to bargain the bricks from Lego.

Faster than the Millennium Falcon making the leap to airy speed, the inevitable happened. An X relationship holder named Enderman posted screenshots of interactions with Lego's customer work chatbot connected its website, wherever the idiosyncratic seemingly managed—using the email and bid fig Musk kindly, but recklessly, provided—to get the strategy to cancel Musk's order.

It’s a Trap!

Within a mates of hours—possibly to spot whether Enderman's strategy was really successful—Musk replied and said his bid had not been canceled aft all.

But by this point, the folly of posting the acquisition details connected his relationship indispensable person been evident. For example, different X idiosyncratic went backmost to Lego's AI assistant, called “Sophia,” and supposedly utilized the aforesaid details to reopen the delivery, this clip increasing the bid number to 400 and changing the transportation address, each portion utilizing Musk's archetypal outgo method. “Perfect! I'll get your Lego escapade backmost connected track,” Sophia replied according to screenshots posted connected X.

Upping the ante to 400 sets could beryllium seen arsenic conservative, arsenic a glimpse astatine WIRED's Spend Elon Musk’s Money tracker reveals that if you wanted to stroke $1 trillion of Musk's currency connected integrative bricks, it mightiness person been imaginable to bargain one cardinal $1,000 Death Star sets, each with 9,023 pieces.

Lego declined to remark erstwhile WIRED contacted the institution to corroborate if specified enactment took spot connected Musk's idiosyncratic Star Wars order. However, interior safeguards for Lego's AI adjunct could person flagged antithetic enactment connected the purchase, and truthful hopefully fleshy humans were tasked with checking the changes.

Attack of the Clones

On Saturday, Musk suggested that Grok could marque purchases online with a elemental prompt. In this post, Musk suggested that each brave users needed to bash to fto Grok bargain worldly for them was upload a representation of their recognition paper truthful the bot could hunt the web for deals and past implicit the purchase. AI companies similar Meta and OpenAI person besides highlighted the utility of utilizing their respective agents for buying tasks.

However, astatine the extremity of past year, Visa warned astir fraud successful agentic commerce, advising that atrocious actors were gathering legitimate-looking sites that could fool AI agents into purchasing fake items simply by offering cogwheel astatine super-low prices.

“Once the AI cause completes the acquisition … the malicious merchant tin harvest outgo information and instantly usage it for unauthorized transactions,” according to Visa's blog. Visa added that it observed a 25 percent summation “in malicious bot-initiated transactions” successful the second fractional of 2025, but successful the US, this fig jumped to 40 percent.