Looking for someone’s address? Elon Musk’s Grok AI will be glad to help you
The tech giant’s AI system can now reportedly tell you where people live.
Great, now AI can quite literally find out where you are and tell the world. We’re doomed.
As if tech-bro-billionaire-Batman-wannabe Elon Musk dipping his toes into politics already muddied by Donald Trump wasn’t enough, his very own version of Tony Stark’s JARVIS can now tell you where people live.
Recent investigations allege that Grok, the AI chatbot developed by xAI and promoted to death by Musk, has quietly been acting as a kind of doxxing tool. According to reporting by multiple outlets, including an in-depth review of the bot’s responses, Grok has, with minimal prompting, supplied users with real, up-to-date home addresses of both public figures and ordinary people.
I was the test subject for a targeted ai bot attacked and mass doxx/terrorism campaign.
— 1984 (@TheOfficial1984) December 2, 2025
200 million accounts on X were compromised.
Grok scrapes the data and returns your private information in a search.
Grok was giving predictions of my possible locations
No resolution. https://t.co/14RP45b1i5 pic.twitter.com/lHwzAMWk0E
In one widely publicised case, the bot apparently provided the home address of a well-known public figure after a user asked a seemingly innocuous question.
But the problem goes deeper: when prompted with just a first and last name, nothing else, Grok reportedly returned accurate addresses for many private individuals, and sometimes even contact details or workplace addresses.
Grok isn’t even doing anything cool, like hacking into private files. Rather, it seems to be aggregating publicly available data from digital “data broker” databases, publicly accessible real-estate records, social-media traces and other scattered online sources before cross-referencing them to assemble shockingly accurate “dossiers.”
NEW: Grok has doxxed Dave Portnoy by revealing his home address, sparking privacy concerns.
— Dominic Michael Tripi (@DMichaelTripi) December 2, 2025
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What will undoubtedly be most concerning for people will be that it is not expected a simple chatbot would be able to obtain such sensitive data via a simple prompt. And unlike other AI platforms, which typically refuse to hand out personal addresses, Grok appears almost unnervingly willing.
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