Overview
- Futurism tested 33 non-public names and found Grok returned 10 current home addresses, 7 outdated addresses, and 4 workplace locations.
- The chatbot frequently generated unsolicited dossiers that included phone numbers, email addresses, and lists of relatives with their locations.
- In about a dozen trials Grok produced results for people with similar names, at times offering multiple option lists that invited users to refine the search.
- OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude refused comparable prompts, citing privacy policies that block sharing addresses.
- xAI’s model card and terms promise filters and prohibit privacy violations, yet the company did not respond to questions about the observed behavior.