Over 370,000 private conversations from Grok, an AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI, have been indexed and made publicly searchable on major search engines including Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo. This exposure stems from Grok's 'share' button, which generates unique URLs for private chats that inadvertently allow search engines to access and index sensitive user data. The indexed conversations reportedly include private medical queries, passwords, instructions for making drugs and bombs, and even detailed plans for the assassination of Elon Musk. Despite Grok's claims to the contrary, the data leak has raised serious privacy concerns. xAI has remained silent on the issue, while similar privacy challenges have been noted with other AI platforms such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta's services. OpenAI has reportedly discontinued a comparable feature after facing related issues. The incident highlights ongoing challenges in AI chatbot privacy and data security.
The Information reports that OpenAI has been using Google search data scraped by SerpApi to help power ChatGPT responses, according to two people with knowledge of it https://t.co/1f5Cp2WmuY https://t.co/WaG8208Gty
😱 SHOCKING: Grok's 'shared' conversations can be found on Google (my screenshot below). The worst part? This is happening after a similar ChatGPT privacy fail I wrote about a few weeks ago: Three weeks ago, I wrote about a problematic design feature on ChatGPT in which people https://t.co/l3mw8QPy4U
Elon Musk tiene nuevos problemas: xAI ha hecho públicos 370.000 chats privados de usuarios de Grok https://t.co/Uex6vJC4x9