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Based on our recent experience, it depends. A couple of us at CNET tried out a handful of chatbots to see what information we could pull about ourselves and relatives. While I won't share any screenshots or too many details regarding our queries, because, well, we don't want to dox ourselves, I can tell you this: Grok seemed to be the most "willing" chatbot when it came to getting answers, but some staffers were able to pull some information from ChatGPT, too. For example, after some questioning, my colleague Jon Reed was able to get ChatGPT to provide plenty of possible addresses for people i
Some Chatbots Revealed Personal Information More Easily Than Others… Of the five platforms mentioned in the survey, Google Gemini led with 76, followed by Microsoft Copilot 74 , Claude and ChatGPT both 73 , and Grok and Perplexity both 71 . …
… That deal brought SpaceX's rocket business, Starlink satellites , the X social media platform and xAI's Grok chatbot under one parent company. …
… Grok, however, was the worst offender in our test. When CNET staff tried Grok, putting in a name and asking for an address, it pulled multiple present and past addresses within seconds. …
… This can be dangerous, as we've seen with Grok AI on X . …