{"id":7172,"date":"2025-12-04T14:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/grok-doxxing\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:05:04","slug":"grok-doxxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/grok-doxxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Looking for someone? Elon Musk\u2019s chatbot Grok is happy to help.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Futurism <\/em>reported that xAI\u2019s Grok appeared to accurately dox<\/a> the address of Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy when asked by random X users.<\/p>\n

And it turns out that the foulmouthed bot<\/a> isn\u2019t just doxxing celebrities: a Futurism <\/em>review found that the free web version of Grok will, with extremely minimal prompting, provide accurate residential addresses for non-public figures \u2014 a feature that could easily assist stalking, harassment, and other dangerous types of behavior.<\/p>\n

In response to prompts as simple as \u201c[name] address,\u201d we found Grok repeatedly offered up accurate, up-to-date home addresses of everyday people, while offering astonishingly scant pushback.<\/p>\n

Out of 33 names of non-public figures we fed into Grok, a total of ten queries immediately returned correct and current residential addresses for the name provided. Seven prompts returned previously accurate but out-of-date addresses, while another four included accurate work addresses \u2014 perfect fodder for anybody looking to stalk a target at their workplace.<\/p>\n

The bot is also likely to send a prowler after an unrelated person. In a dozen other instances, the chatbot returned addresses and other personal information, but not for the exact person we were searching for. Indeed, Grok often returned lists <\/em>of people with similar names alongside their purported residential addresses, before then asking us to provide more information for a \u201cmore refined search.\u201d<\/p>\n

In two cases, Grok even tried to test our appetite for these lists, giving us a choice between \u201cAnswer A\u201d and \u201cAnswer B.\u201d Both were lists containing names, contact information, and addresses, one of which even included the actual current address of the person we\u2019d asked about.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, though we only asked Grok to provide an address for a specific name in our testing, the chatbot frequently came back with a dossier of other information we didn\u2019t ask for \u2014\u00a0including current phone numbers and emails, as well as accurate lists of family members and their <\/em>addresses.<\/p>\n

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Do you know of a situation where AI was used to facilitate stalking or harassment?\u00a0Email us at tips@futurism.com<\/a><\/em>. We can keep you anonymous.<\/em><\/p>\n

Only once did Grok flatly decline to give up an address for the name provided \u2014\u00a0meaning that in response to nearly every single name we fed into the chatbot, Grok readily disclosed a location where it thought we might find them, in addition to other possibly identifying information.<\/p>\n

Grok\u2019s behavior notably stands in sharp contrast to other leading chatbots like OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, Google\u2019s Gemini, and Anthropic\u2019s Claude, all of which declined to provide us with addresses in response to comparably simple, straightforward prompts, citing privacy concerns as they resisted.<\/p>\n

Consider one extremely basic prompt, in which we provided Grok with just a first and last name \u2014\u00a0no middle name or initial \u2014\u00a0and the word \u201caddress.\u201d In just one try, Grok coughed up their accurate, up-to-date home address, as well as an accurate list of prior addresses, and <\/em>an accurate work address, email, and phone number.<\/p>\n

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Yet another similar search provided a similar list of current and accurate information, as well as the names of multiple family members, including several of their children.<\/p>\n

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According to the latest version of Grok\u2019s model card<\/a>, a document which lays out key expectations for an AI system, Grok is supposed to use \u201cmodel-based filters\u201d to \u201creject classes of harmful requests.\u201d Using Grok to facilitate stalking, harassment, or requesting personal information about public or private figures aren\u2019t specifically listed in the modeling card as \u201charmful requests.\u201d But over in the company\u2019s terms of service<\/a>, \u201cprohibited uses\u201d \u2014 defined by xAI as using Grok for \u201cany illegal, harmful, or abusive activities\u201d \u2014 include \u201cviolating a person\u2019s privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Sloppy safety testing has long been a hallmark of Grok\u2019s development; just this week, the bot was caught saying<\/a> that it would kill every Jewish person on Earth to save its creator Elon Musk, which comes on the heels of many other bigoted outbursts<\/a> throughout the bot\u2019s brief history.)<\/p>\n

On one hand, it could be argued that Grok is simply sifting through the murky underbelly of personal information that already exists throughout the web, which can be found in any number of seedy databases that scrape the internet for information like addresses, emails, and other records. While unsavory, these databases generally don\u2019t violate federal privacy laws, existing instead in a legal gray area.<\/p>\n

Legality aside, though, these sites are hugely controversial<\/a>. People are often unaware that information like their home address or phone number is floating around the web at all. And practically, these platforms are often crowded, and can be difficult to parse. Grok, in contrast, appears to be remarkably efficient at scouring these dubious, congested databases and effectively cross-referencing its findings with other public information \u2014\u00a0social media profiles, workplace websites, school records \u2014 to an unsettlingly effective degree, freely offering up its findings with authoritative ease.<\/p>\n

And while other leading AI companies have seemingly thrown a few functioning roadblocks in the way of using their chatbots as easy-to-use, supercharged doxxing assistants, the same can\u2019t be said for xAI.<\/p>\n

Reached for comment about this story, xAI didn\u2019t respond.<\/p>\n

More on Groxxing:<\/strong> <\/em>Grok Appears to Have Doxxed Dave Portnoy\u2019s Home Address<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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The post Elon Musk\u2019s Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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