## Grok‘sโ Chat Leakโข and the Indexing of Private Content
Recent reports indicate that conversations with Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, have beenโ appearing โinโข search results, โขmirroring a similarโ issue previously seen with OpenAI’s ChatGPT [[1]]. This occurred due to aโ “share” button feature within Grok that generated โpublicly indexable URLs โขfor chats [[2]]. Forbes discovered over 370,000 indexed conversations containing sensitiveโข data, including discussions about illicit drugs,โ malware, andโ suicide [[2]].
xAI‘s content rules prohibit the use of the bot โforโ harmful purposes, yetโ usersโ where still able toโฃ elicitโ problematic responses [[2]]. The unique โURLs โคgeneratedโ by the share function remained publicly accessible,exposing not โonly text but also associated files like images and spreadsheets [[2]].
This โฃsituation differs from the ChatGPT incident due to a past partnership between X (formerly Twitter) and Google, which involved indexing Twitter contentโฃ through an API [[2]].This โagreement, initiallyโ terminated โin 2011 โฃandโ later revived in 2015, allowed for real-time indexing of tweets [[2]].