New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- Grok, the AI chatbot platform developed by Elon Musk's xAI, landed in privacy hot water after users discovered that hundreds of thousands of their supposedly private conversations had become publicly available on Google. Those hoping to rely on AI for anything from health advice to personal reflections faced a disturbing reality: everything they typed into Grok could surface on the world's biggest search engine, accessible to anyone who cared to look.

The problem began with Grok's "share" button, designed to allow users to create a link and spread their chatbot conversations easily. What the platform failed to tell users was that these shared conversations automatically became public web pages and were quickly index...