Grok creates a unique sharable URL whenever a user clicks the share button, and those URLs are made available to search engines. More than 370,000 Grok conversations have been indexed and are publicly searchable. Indexed chats include mundane tasks like writing tweets, summarizing front pages, and sensitive requests such as generating images of a fictional terrorist attack and attempting to hack a crypto wallet. Some shared pages revealed intimate medical and psychological questions, user names, personal details, at least one password, and uploaded image files, spreadsheets, and text documents. Many users were unaware that clicking share would publish their chats without warning or disclaimer.
Anytime a Grok user clicks the "share" button on one of their chats with the bot, a unique URL is created, allowing them to share the conversation via email, text message or other means. Unbeknownst to users, though, that unique URL is also made available to search engines, like Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo, making them searchable to anyone on the web.
Today, a Google search for Grok chats shows that the search engine has indexed more than 370,000 user conversations with the bot. The shared pages revealed conversations between Grok users and the LLM that range from simple business tasks like writing tweets to generating images of a fictional terrorist attack in Kashmir and attempting to hack into a crypto wallet.
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