Seems a bit upside down. Should they not approach Google for comment? If a stolen watch turns up at a carbooth sale, I'd in the first place want answers from the seller, not the victim.
dragonwriter•1h ago
> Seems a bit upside down. Should they not approach Google for comment? If a stolen watch turns up at a carbooth sale, I'd in the first place want answers from the seller, not the victim.
Search results indexed from the public web aren't stolen.
Private material exposed on the public web in contravention of the privacy expectation between the user to whom it belongs and the site owner with custody is a problem of the site owner exposing it, not the search engine indexing it.
PeterStuer•1h ago
So you are saying the Grok users publicized them (e.g. shared to anyone with the public link, then mailed the link via gmail)? How else would they be on the public web? Or did Google exfiltrated them somehow from a private source?
I'd be surprised x.ai freely aided a direct rival.
PeterStuer•1h ago
Seems a bit upside down. Should they not approach Google for comment? If a stolen watch turns up at a carbooth sale, I'd in the first place want answers from the seller, not the victim.
dragonwriter•1h ago
Search results indexed from the public web aren't stolen.
Private material exposed on the public web in contravention of the privacy expectation between the user to whom it belongs and the site owner with custody is a problem of the site owner exposing it, not the search engine indexing it.
PeterStuer•1h ago
I'd be surprised x.ai freely aided a direct rival.