Real or AI? for X Privacy Policy

Last updated: 26 October 2026

Real or AI? for X is a free browser extension from the makers of Streamsteady. When you click its Real or AI? button on a post (it sits next to X's Grok button), it asks your own Grok, inside X, whether the post's image or video looks AI-generated, and shows Grok's answer on the post. This policy is short because the extension does very little with your information.

The short version

The extension runs entirely in your browser. It has no server, sends nothing to us or to anyone else, and contains no analytics or tracking. The only service it talks to is X itself, through the Grok you already use there.

What it reads

Only on x.com and twitter.com: when you click the Real or AI? button on a post, it reads that post's ID and link and whether the post, or a post it quotes, has an image or video, and it reads Grok's reply on the page to find the verdict line. It does not read your timeline, your direct messages, your notifications, your cookies, or any other website.

What it sends

It opens X's own Grok on the post, stops any answer Grok starts on its own, switches Grok to its Fast mode if it isn't already, and types one question into X's own Grok box: whether the post's media is AI-generated, with the post's link. That question goes to X like anything else you type to Grok, under X's own terms and privacy policy. The extension sends nothing anywhere else.

What it stores, and where

• your two settings (whether to offer reply buttons, and whether to offer the credit reply), in your browser's extension storage. If you use Chrome sync, Chrome copies them to your other signed-in browsers.
• a short-lived list of post IDs you already checked and their verdicts, so a second click doesn't ask Grok again. It lives in browser session storage and is cleared when you close the browser.
• a troubleshooting log of its last 40 steps (the time, the post ID, the step, and sometimes the first words of Grok's reply), so a check that gets stuck can be diagnosed. It is kept in your browser's storage for x.com, so pages on x.com can read it too. The extension never sends it anywhere.

Posting

The extension never posts for you. Its reply buttons open X's own reply box on the post with suggested text filled in (or X's reply page in a new tab, if the box doesn't open); nothing is posted unless you press Reply yourself.

Links

The popup and the verdict card include a link to Streamsteady (streamsteady.io/get, which forwards to Streamsteady's Chrome Web Store page). It opens only if you click it and carries no tracking tag.

About the verdict

The verdict is Grok's read, not a forensic test, and it can be wrong. Please don't treat it as proof about anyone's post.

Permissions

• storage: to keep your two settings and the checked-posts list described above.
• Access to x.com and twitter.com: to add the Real or AI? button to posts, ask Grok, and show the verdict on the post.

Contact

Questions: support@streamsteady.io. Removing the extension deletes its settings and the checked-posts list. The troubleshooting log is part of x.com's site data in your browser; clearing x.com's site data removes it.