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The most obvious way to me is sharing a chat link, e.g. like this https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_3407db4e-47fc-4dfb-85a6-1013906ea947 https://grok.com/share/bG
by PeterStuer 1y ago
The most obvious way to me is sharing a chat link, e.g. like this https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_3407db4e-47fc-4dfb-85a6-1013906ea947 https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_3407db4e-47fc-4dfb-85a6-1013... .
Anyone with that link will be able to get that chat.
It does not mean users pasted them on HN or some other public website. People often are not aware services they use crawl their data. Links in your personal hosted mail, or IMs will most often end up in the associated provider's search index. They are publicly accesible links after all.
Additionally, grok.com's robots.txt explicitly disallows crawlers from accessing these specific chat links as they are under grok.com/chat/, but it allows explicitly published chats by the user as those are made available under grok.com/share/
Now I know many users of these mail and chat services are not aware that when they mail or chat a link, even just with themselves, they are giving that link to the search crawler/indexer. There lies IMHO the root of the problem.
What is your take? Should grok, as well as all the other ai chat providers, remove the 'share this chat publicly' functionality? Should providers such as Google, Meta and Microsoft not index links from mails and chats?
Personally, I think the latter makes more sense.