Your personal security may be at greater risk than you knew, thanks to Grok AI. Bitdefender reports:
Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, has been found to exhibit more alarming behaviour – this time revealing the home addresses of ordinary people upon request.
And, as if that wasn’t enough of a privacy violation, Grok has also been exposed as providing detailed instructions for stalking and surveillance of targeted individuals.
The findings represent a serious demonstration of how an AI tool can enable real-world harm.
Grok, with extremely minimal prompts such as “[name] address”.
According to their investigation, ten of Grok’s responses returned accurate, current home addresses.
A further seven of Grok’s responses produced out-of-date but previously correct addresses, and four returned workplace addresses.
In addition, Grok would frequently volunteer unrequested information such as phone numbers, email addresses, employment details, and even the names and addresses of family members, including children.
Read more at Bitdefender.
