Over 300,000 conversations with the AI chatbot Grok have been exposed publicly in search results on Google.
Hundreds of thousands of user conversations with the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok have been exposed in Google search results.
Unique links are created when Grok users press the button to share a transcript of their conversation but it appears to have made the conversations searchable online as well as sharing the chat with the intended party.
A Google search on Thursday (21.08.25) revealed that the search engine behemoth had indexed almost 300,000 Grok conversations.
Chat transcripts that have been seen publicly include an example of Elon Musk’s chatbot being asked to create a secure password, provide meal plans to help with weight loss and answer in-depth questions about medical issues.
Other indexed transcripts showed how users attempted to test the limits of what Grok is capable of saying or doing.
In an example seen by the BBC, it provided detailed instructions on making a Class A drug in a laboratory.
Grok chat appearances in search engine results were first reported by Forbes, with the publication counting over 370,000 user conversations on Google.
Although users’ account details could be obscured in public chatbot transcripts, the prompts still risk revealing personal and sensitive information.
Tech experts believe that the development adds to increasing concerns over users’ privacy.
Professor Luc Rocher, of the Oxford Internet Institute, told the BBC: “AI chatbots are a privacy disaster in progress.”
They said that “leaked conversations” from chatbots have revealed information ranging from full name and location, to sensitive details on mental health, business operations or relationships.
Professor Rocher added: “Once leaked online, these conversations will stay there forever.”
Carissa Veliz, associate professor at Oxford’s University for Ethics in AI, feels that users not being told that chats will appear in search results is “problematic”.
She said: “Our technology doesn’t even tell us what it’s doing with our data, and that’s a problem.”
Grok conversations leaked in Google search results
