US EditionHundreds of Thousands of Grok Chats Surface in Google After Share-Link Indexing Flaws
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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After OpenAI had already had a problem with publicly visible GPT chats, Grok became aware of the same problem, the X-fused AI of the company xAI from Elon Musk. Here, too, it was due to the sharing function. Privacy did not seem to play a role in the conception. Since August 20, 2025, countless conversations with the AI chatbot Grok are publicly available via search engines such as Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo. Actually, the
Massive Leak Puts Grok Chats In Google Search Results
Imagine pouring your heart into an AI chatbot — asking it to make you a diet plan, draft a password, or even talk through personal struggles. Only to find that same chat floating around on Google for anyone to stumble upon.That’s exactly what just happened with Elon Musk’s AI assistant, Grok.Here’s the catch: every time a user hit the “share” button to send their chat transcript to someone, the system also made it searchable online. What Was The…
The private conversations of thousands of users with Grok of xAI, the artificial intelligence company of Elon Musk, begin to flood the internet.
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