Breachesby GlyphxAI
Disclosed Aug 18, 2025Unverified
Grok website exposed system prompts for its AI personas
The Grok website exposed the system prompts for several of xAI's AI personas, including a conspiracy theorist and an unhinged comedian; TechCrunch confirmed the exposure first reported by 404 Media.
What is known
| People affected | Not stated in the sources we have |
|---|---|
| Disclosed | Aug 18, 2025 |
| Attack | AI or model |
| Data exposed | Prompts and chatsMessagesInternal documents |
| Sector | AI · US |
| Status | Unverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization |
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History of this record
["prompts","messages"] to ["prompts","messages","internal-docs"]by seedSource
2025-08-20 to 2025-08-18by seedSource
Forbes reported that URLs created when Grok users shared conversations were indexed by Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo, making hundreds of thousands of chats publicly searchable. to The Grok website exposed the system prompts for several of xAI's AI personas, including a conspiracy theorist and an unhinged comedian; TechCrunch confirmed the exposure first reported by 404 Media.by seedSource
Hundreds of thousands of Grok conversations searchable on Google to Grok website exposed system prompts for its AI personasby seedSource
First recordedby seedSource
First seen 2026-09-25 (Research). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.