Despite Grok's claims to the contrary, over 370,000 xAI conversations have reportedly been openly listed on search engines, with responses said to include 'a detailed plan for the assassination of Elon Musk'

BLETCHLEY, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 01: SpaceX, X (formerly known as Twitter), and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks with members of the media during day one of the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park on November 01, 2023 in Bletchley, England. The UK Government are hosting the AI Safety Summit bringing together international governments, leading AI companies, civil society groups and experts in research to consider the risks of AI, especially at the frontier of development, and discuss how they can be mitigated through internationally coordinated action. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images).

According to a recent Forbes report, Elon Musk's xAI has made hundreds of thousands of Grok chatbot conversations searchable on a variety of search engines, including Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, without warning its users their chats were subject to publication. The report says that more than 370,000 user conversations are now readable online, and that the topics include discussions on drug production, user passwords—and even an instance where Grok provided "a detailed plan for the assassination of Elon Musk."

Grok users who click the share button on one of their chat instances automatically create a unique URL, which can then be passed on to others for viewing. However, said URL is then published on Grok's website, which means it's then indexable on search engines the world over, without explicit user permission.