What is said between you and your IA cat is between you and your IA cat? No.
According to a Report by ForbesThe AI assistant of Elon Musk Grok published more than 370,000 cats on the Grok website. These URLs, which were not necessarily intended for public consumption by users, were then indexed by search engines and entry into the public sphere.
It was not just discussions. Forbes reported that downloaded documents, such as photos, spreadsheets and other documents, have also been published.
The representatives of XAI, who make Grok, did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Grok Conversations’ publication is the last in a series of disturbing reports that should encourage Chatbot users to be too cautious about what they share with AI assistants. Do not just undergo the terms and conditions, and be aware of the confidentiality parameters.
Earlier this month, 404 media reported On a researcher who discovered more than 130,000 cats with the Assistants of the Claude, the GPT cat and others were readable on Archive.org.
When a Grok cat is finished, the user can press a sharing button to create a unique URL, allowing the conversation to be shared with others. According to Forbes, “pressing the sharing button means that a conversation will be published on the Grok website, without warning or a warning to the user”. These URLs have also been made available to search engines, allowing anyone to read them.
There is no warning that these cat URLs will be published for open internet. But the Service conditions Described on the Grok website reads
Protect your privacy
EM Lewis-Jong, director of Mozilla FoundationAdvise Chatbot users keep in mind a simple directive: do not share anything you want to keep private, such as personal identification data or other sensitive information.
“The worrying problem is that these AI systems are not designed to transparently inform users of the amount of data collected or in which their data can be exposed,” explains Lewis-Jong. “This risk is higher if we consider that children as young as 13 years old can use chatbots like Chatgpt.”
Lewis-Jong adds that AI assistants such as Grok and Chatgpt should be clearer about the risks that users take when they use these tools.
“AI companies should ensure that users understand that their data could be on public platforms.” Said Lewis-Jong. “IA companies tell people that AI could make mistakes – it is only another health warning that should also be implemented with regard to users of using their data.”
According to SEO and Opinion leadership data Sage Sage Marketing SocietyGrok holds 0.6%of the market share, far behind Chatgpt leaders (60.4%), Microsoft Copilot (14.10%) and Google Gemini (13.5%).
