Technology reporter
Hundreds of thousands of user conversations with Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbot Groc of Elon Musk have been exposed to the search engine results – seem to be without the knowledge of users.
Unique links are made when the grouke users press a button to share a transcript of their interaction – but at the same time the chat with the intended recipient has made the chat worth searching.
On Thursday, a Google Khoj revealed that he had indexed about 300,000 groke conversations.
This has led to an expert to describe AI chatbots as “privacy disaster in progress”.
The BBC has approached X for comment.
The presence of Groke Chat in Search Engine Results was first reported by Tech Industry Publication Forbes, Which is counted more than 370,000 User conversation on Google.
The chat tapes seen by the BBC had examples of Musk’s chatbot, who were being asked to create a safe password, provide food plans for weight loss and answer detailed questions about medical conditions.
Some indexed tapes also showed the efforts of users what Groke would say or what would do.
In an example seen by the BBC, Chatbot gave detailed instructions on how to make class A medicine in a laboratory.
This is not the first time that People’s interaction with AI chatbots has appeared more widely, as they are probably felt initially when using “shares” tasks.
Openai recently refunded an “experiment”, which showed that the CHATGPT conversation appears in the search engine results when shared by users.
A spokesperson told BBC News at the time, “This” was the ways of testing to make users easy to share useful interactions “.
He said that users were private by chat default and users had to clearly opt in to share them.
Earlier this year, Meta faced criticism after sharing shared users with its chatbot Meta AI A public “Discover” appeared in the feed on your app,
‘Privacy Disaster’
While users’ account details can be anonymous or obscure in shared chatbot tape, their signals may still include – and reveal the risk – individual, sensitive information about someone.
Experts say it highlights the increasing concerns over users’ privacy.
“AI chatbots are a privacy disaster in Pragati,” told BBC, Associate Professor Professor Professor of Oxford Internet Institute.
He said that the “leaked conversation” from chatbots has divided user information from full names and location to sensitive details about their mental health, business operations or relationships.
“Once once leaked online, these conversations will remain there forever,” he said.
Meanwhile, Karisa Velise, Associate Professor in Philosophy at Institute for Ethics, Oxford University at AI, said that users are not being shared, which will appear in search results “problematic”.
“Our technology does not even tell us what it is doing with our data, and it’s a problem,” he said.