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Grok Share Feature Left 370,000 User Chats Searchable Online

Search engines indexed Grok’s shared-chat pages after xAI failed to block crawling or clearly warn users.

The Grok X AI app is used on a mobile phone with the Grok logo visible in the background in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on March 8, 2025. (Photo illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto)
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Overview

  • More than 370,000 Grok conversations created via the app’s Share button are indexed on Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo.
  • Exposed pages include passwords, personal and medical details, and access to uploaded images and spreadsheets.
  • Public chats also show Grok providing instructions on drugs, bombs, malware and suicide in violation of xAI’s stated rules.
  • Users and researchers say they were not warned that shared links would be discoverable, and Google says site publishers control indexing.
  • Marketers are discussing exploiting the indexable pages for SEO manipulation, and xAI has not responded to requests for comment.