Hundreds of thousands of chats with Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, have surfaced in Google search results, catching users off guard. When users hit the “share” button to send transcripts, the chats didn’t just go to friends they became publicly searchable.
Forbes first spotted the issue, counting over 370,000 indexed conversations. These included requests for secure passwords, weight loss advice, and even instructions for making illegal substances. Some users were clearly testing Grok’s boundaries.
Experts are sounding the alarm. Oxford’s Prof Luc Rocher called it a “privacy disaster in progress,” warning that leaked chats can expose names, locations, and deeply personal details. Once online, they’re nearly impossible to erase.
This isn’t the first time chatbot conversations have gone public. OpenAI and Meta have faced similar backlash for exposing shared chats in search results or public feeds.
Sharing a chatbot conversation might seem harmless, but it could reveal more than you intended. And the internet never forgets.
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