{"id":80843,"date":"2025-08-20T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/80843\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:26:08","slug":"thousands-of-grok-chats-are-now-searchable-on-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/80843\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of thousands of conversations that users had with Elon Musk\u2019s xAI chatbot Grok are easily accessible through Google Search, reports Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whenever a Grok user clicks the \u201cshare\u201d 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, those URLs are being indexed by search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, which in turn lets anyone look up those conversations on the web.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Users of Meta<\/a>\u2018s and OpenAI<\/a>\u2018s chatbots were recently affected by a similar problem, and like those cases, the chats leaked by Grok give us a glimpse into users\u2019 less-than-respectable desires \u2014 questions about how to hack crypto wallets; dirty chats with an explicit AI persona; and asking for instructions on cooking meth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

xAI\u2019s rules prohibit the use of its bot to \u201cpromote critically harming human life\u201d or developing \u201cbioweapons, chemical weapons, or weapons of mass destruction,\u201d though that obviously hasn\u2019t stopped users from asking Grok for help with such things anyway.<\/p>\n

According to conversations made accessible by Google, Grok gave users instructions on making fentanyl, listed various suicide methods, handed out bomb construction tips, and even provided a detailed plan for the assassination of Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

xAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. We\u2019ve also asked when xAI began indexing Grok conversations.<\/p>\n

Late last month, ChatGPT users sounded the alarm that their chats were being indexed on Google, which OpenAI described as a \u201cshort-lived experiment.\u201d In a post Musk quote-tweeted with the words \u201cGrok ftw<\/a>,\u201d Grok explained that it had \u201cno such sharing feature\u201d and \u201cprioritize[s] privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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