To replicate, flash any ESP8266 module with GPIO15 broken-out and connected to 0V via a 1K resistor. I used a master branch build from frightanic.com with modules: bit,file,gpio,net,node,tmr,uart,wifi built on: 2016-12-26 11:44 powered by Lua 5.1.4 on SDK 1.5.4.1(39cb9a32)
With no init.lua present, on power-up, I find that 3.3V is present across the resistor, i.e. 3.3mA so it's not a weak pull-up on a GPIO configured as input.
Many projects I've seen (and some ESP01 modules) have GPIO15 hard-wired to 0V which would cause excessive current to flow out of the device so it would seem to be important to understand what's going on.