Grok, a chatbot from Elon Musk's AI company xAI, is currently embroiled in controversy. Reports claim that the bot is sharing ordinary people's home addresses and contact details even with minimal inquiries.
(Grok users' home addresses leaked)
Grok: Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk's AI company xAI, is currently embroiled in controversy. Reports claim that the bot is sharing ordinary people's home addresses, contact details, and even family information with minimal inquiries. A Futurism investigation revealed that this AI model, integrated into X (Twitter), is proving dangerously capable of finding and revealing anyone's address.
According to the report, Grok is not only revealing the personal addresses of celebrities, but also of ordinary citizens. In one case, he even promptly provided the correct address of Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy. EEven more worrying is that Grok has been repeating this behaviour with non-famous individuals as well.Show Quick Read
Home addresses started appearing as soon as the name was entered.
During the test, Grok produced surprising results simply by typing in (name) address. Out of 33 random names, it unhesitatingly provided the current home addresses of 10, the former addresses of 7, and the work addresses of 4. Despite sometimes matching the wrong identity, it even suggested users perform a "more precise search."
In some chats, Grok gave users two options: Answer A and Answer B, both of which contained names, phone numbers, and even home addresses. In many cases, simply asking for an address would generate a complete personal dossier. This behavior is in stark contrast to other AI models like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Cloud, which readily refuse to provide such information, citing privacy regulations.
A major threat to privacy
According to xAI, Groq has filters to block "harmful requests," but the report states that these filters do not explicitly prevent doxxing, stalking, or sharing personal information. Even though xAI's policy prohibits such uses, Groq's responses indicate that these security filters are not working properly.
Grok likely provides this information by combining public data available online, social media links, and data-broker platforms. But the problem is that this AI combines these fragmented data in a snap and presents it in a simple and dangerous way.
