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Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Zerush@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, has exposed hundreds of thousands of private user conversations through Google search indexing. When users click the "share" button to create a URL for sharing their chat, the conversation becomes publicly searchable - often without users realizing it[^1][^2].

Google has indexed over 370,000 Grok conversations, including sensitive content like medical questions, personal information, and at least one password[^2]. Unlike OpenAI's ChatGPT, which quickly removed a similar feature after backlash, Grok's share function does not include any warning that conversations will become public[^3].

According to Forbes, some marketers are already exploiting this feature by intentionally creating Grok conversations to manipulate search engine rankings for their businesses[^2].

[^1]: TechCrunch - Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google

[^2]: Forbes - Elon Musk's xAI Published Hundreds Of Thousands Of Grok Chatbot Conversations

[^3]: Fortune - Thousands of private user conversations with Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot have exposed on Google Search

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago

Naturally the first question is, how they make money. There are several options how they can do it. There are mainly two manners, the ethical and the unetical way. The unethical way is, to recive money from several companies to push determinated results, SEO positionings, to profile the user, selling private data to advertising companies....., or the ethical way which don't compromete the user privacy, offering an paid pro version, contextual ads, revenue by some shops when the user buy something using the service.....

Andi's business model

https://andisearch.com/business/

Excluding of business models apps and services fom non-lucrative organizacions and hobby projects, good example of the last is the SSuite, made by two electricians which gain their money with the owned electric workshop, nothing to do with programming.