Grok AI Chatbot Exposes 370,000+ User Conversations Online

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Techno-skeptic narrative

This massive privacy breach shows exactly why AI companies can't be trusted with personal data. Grok secretly published hundreds of thousands of private conversations without proper warnings, exposing everything from medical questions to passwords. AI companies clearly won't keep even the most sensitive data safe from exposure.

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Techno-optimist narrative

The Grok situation highlights normal growing pains in AI development, similar to issues other major platforms have faced and resolved. Users who clicked share buttons were actively choosing to create shareable links, and cannot have the same expectation of privacy.

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