xAI made people's conversations with its chatbot public on Google w/o warning

6 bundie 3 8/20/2025, 1:23:21 PM forbes.com ↗

Comments (3)

hodgehog11 · 4h ago
Unless I'm mistaken, I think you linked to the wrong article. It should be this one:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/08/20/elon-musk...

dkiebd · 2h ago
The article is bs as I supposed it would be. If you share a conversation and google is made aware of the link it will appear in its index… as expected.
dpoloncsak · 1h ago
Until recently with openAI, I would not have assumed that sharing a chat privately with my friend would make it 'public'.

> If you share a conversation and google is made aware of the link

The issue, as I see it, is that google is made aware of the link without the user's knowledge. Its trivial to prevent Google from indexing /chat/* (or whatever the actual path is), and pressing 'share' and texting a url to a buddy does not immediately present itself as an action that Google would be aware of.