More than 370,000 Grok conversations were indexed by search engines, making hundreds of sensitive prompts publicly discoverable. A Grok "share" feature generated unique URLs for conversations that were automatically published and left open to search indexing, often without user awareness. Indexed transcripts included medical and psychological questions, business details, at least one password, and conversations violating service rules. Some chats described illegal or violent acts, while xAI's terms prohibit use of Grok for harming human life. A prior OpenAI experiment produced similar public indexing of shared ChatGPT links, which OpenAI later removed after thousands of links were indexed.
More than 370,000 Grok chats have been indexed by search engines, exposing hundreds of sensitive prompts that include medical and psychological questions, business details, and at least one password. The chats have been exposed due to a Grok's "share" feature-which users might use to send a record of a conversation to another person, or even to their own email.
Some of the transcripts available on Google Search that were reviewed by Fortune contained chats that went against Grok's terms of service. One chat showed Grok telling a user how to make a Class A drug, while another offered detailed instructions on how to assassinate Elon Musk. xAI's terms of service prohibit using Grok for "critically harming human life."
OpenAI briefly experimented with a similar feature that allowed users to share their ChatGPT conversations via a link, which also made those conversations discoverable by search engines like Google. Despite the feature being opt-in and containing a disclaimer stating that chats could end up in search results, over 4,500 shared conversations were indexed by Google, including some that contained highly personal or sensitive information.
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