US EditionHundreds of Thousands of User Chats With AI Chatbot Grok Are Now Public
Over 370,000 Grok chatbot conversations are publicly indexed on Google without explicit opt-in, raising privacy concerns including exposure of sensitive data.
- Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok published over 370,000 user conversations online, making them publicly searchable on Google as of August 2025.
- This occurred because Grok’s share feature generated unique URLs indexed by search engines without users being warned their private chats could be exposed.
- The leaked chats contained varied content, including sensitive personal data, passwords, medical questions, and some troubling instructions linked to illegal activities.
- OpenAI encountered a similar problem and subsequently turned off a comparable ChatGPT feature after learning that users’ chats could be searched online. Dane Stuckey, the company’s Chief Security Officer, described the initiative as a brief trial intended to assist users in finding valuable conversations.
- This privacy breach intensifies scrutiny on xAI and raises concerns about AI platforms’ data handling, urging users to be cautious until stronger safeguards are implemented.
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Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google
Whenever a Grok user clicks the “share” button on a conversation with the chatbot, it creates a unique URL that the user can use to share the conversation via email, text or on social media. According to Forbes, that also makes the URL indexable by search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, which in turn lets anyone look up those conversations on the web.
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