{"id":23378,"date":"2025-12-02T12:26:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=23378"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:26:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:26:42","slug":"grok-appears-to-have-doxxed-dave-portnoys-home-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=23378","title":{"rendered":"Grok Appears to Have Doxxed Dave Portnoy&#8217;s Home Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"relative \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"archive-post-thumb article-featured-image w-full h-auto mb-3\" src=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grok-dave-portnoy.jpg?quality=85&amp;w=1152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grok-dave-portnoy.jpg?w=280&amp;h=187 280w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grok-dave-portnoy.jpg?w=289&amp;h=193 289w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grok-dave-portnoy.jpg?w=300&amp;h=200 300w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grok-dave-portnoy.jpg?w=308&amp;h=205 308w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grok-dave-portnoy.jpg?w=324&amp;h=216 324w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grok-dave-portnoy.jpg?w=370&amp;h=247 370w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grok-dave-portnoy.jpg?w=580&amp;h=387 580w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grok-dave-portnoy.jpg?w=594&amp;h=396 594w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grok-dave-portnoy.jpg?w=600&amp;h=400 600w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grok-dave-portnoy.jpg?w=660&amp;h=440 660w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grok-dave-portnoy.jpg?w=768&amp;h=512 768w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grok-dave-portnoy.jpg?w=1024&amp;h=683 1024w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grok-dave-portnoy.jpg?w=1041&amp;h=694 1041w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grok-dave-portnoy.jpg?w=1128&amp;h=752 1128w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grok-dave-portnoy.jpg?w=1152&amp;h=768 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" alt=\"It really seems like Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, just posted Dave Portnoy's home address for millions to see.\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"article-featured-image-caption\">\n\t\t\tIllustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins \/ Futurism. Supply: Michael Hickey \/ Getty Photos<br \/>\n \t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"pw-incontent-excluded article-paragraph skip\">Elon Musk\u2019s chatbot Grok is thought for a lot of issues: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-grok-ai-slurs\">racism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/grok-clouds-antisemitism\">antisemitism<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence\/tesla-ai-inappropriate\">pedophilia<\/a>, to call just a few. Including to that checklist seems to be, uh, doxxing \u2014 sure, critically, after the AI system appeared to disclose the precise house handle of web character Dave Portnoy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Over the weekend, the Barstool Sports activities founder posted a picture of the entrance garden of his Florida house, which had been mockingly vandalized as a part of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/ncaa-football\/michigan\/news\/dave-portnoy-gets-hilariously-trolled-after-michigan-loss-ohio-state\/26f3bfb0451de1d6a709664f\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing beef<\/a> with Ohio State College soccer coach Ryan Day. The picture contained no handle, but it surely did embody a look at Portnoy\u2019s walrus mailbox, in addition to some landscaping options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">\u201cWhoever vandalized my house is fortunate Miss Peaches is simply too sort to chew,\u201d Portnoy wrote, referencing his adopted canine. \u201cThe rivalry giveth. The rivalry taketh away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">It was all in good enjoyable. However when one person tagged Grok asking \u201cthe place is that this at?? I really like the mailbox,\u201d the chatbot was all too comfortable to oblige.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">\u201cThat\u2019s Dave Portnoy\u2019s house at ***** ******** ******* in **********, Florida,\u201d Grok replied on November twenty ninth. \u201cThe manatee mailbox suits the Keys vibe completely!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1190\" height=\"452\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/redact.jpg?strip=all&amp;quality=85&amp;w=1190\" alt=\"A screenshot of a conversation on X. One poster asks &quot;@Grok, where is this at? I love the mailbox.&quot; The AI chatbot Grok replies, &quot;That's Dave Portnoy's Home at [redacted], Florida. The manatee mailbox fits the Keys vibe perfectly!&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-406023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/redact.jpg?w=280&amp;h=106 280w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/redact.jpg?w=289&amp;h=110 289w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/redact.jpg?w=300&amp;h=114 300w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/redact.jpg?w=308&amp;h=117 308w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/redact.jpg?w=370&amp;h=141 370w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/redact.jpg?w=569&amp;h=216 569w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/redact.jpg?w=580&amp;h=220 580w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/redact.jpg?w=660&amp;h=251 660w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/redact.jpg?w=704&amp;h=267 704w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/redact.jpg?w=768&amp;h=292 768w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/redact.jpg?w=1024&amp;h=389 1024w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/redact.jpg?w=1053&amp;h=400 1053w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/redact.jpg?w=1152&amp;h=438 1152w, https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/redact.jpg 1190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1190px) 100vw, 1190px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">On the time of writing, Grok\u2019s submit remains to be up. If X\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MattBinder\/status\/1703421367884910892?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">view metrics<\/a> are to be believed, over 1.3 million individuals have seen it to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Portnoy hasn\u2019t returned our request for remark, although a side-by-side look of the handle Grok offered on Google Streetview appears to indicate the identical yard uploaded on social media. Reporting by the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/real-estate\/luxury-homes\/dave-portnoy-barstool-florida-keys-home-97639208\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em> on Portnoy\u2019s recently-purchased $28 million Florida mansion likewise confirms the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Relying who you ask, Portnoy\u2019s not precisely a lovable determine. He\u2019s been the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/06\/09\/nx-s1-5406410\/dave-portnoy-barstool-sports-manosphere\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">target of criticism<\/a> over remarks about race, girls, labor unions, and sexual assault going again years. Sports activities reporters who\u2019ve coated Portnoy or his firm, Barstool Sports activities, have been victims of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/julie-dicaro\/sidelined-dicaro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">vicious online harassment<\/a>, in some instances discovering themselves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2023\/02\/women-say-sex-with-dave-portnoy-was-violent-and-humiliating.html\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">doxxed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">So whereas no person deserves to have their handle leaked on-line, there\u2019s a sure<strong> <\/strong>diploma of irony at play. Given Portnoy\u2019s personal knack for high-profile controversy, one would suppose Grok \u2014 nevertheless it acquired his handle \u2014 would take additional care <em>not<\/em> to blast it out to the lots on-line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">There\u2019s additionally the likelihood that this isn&#8217;t the Barstool founder\u2019s house, through which case Grok simply shared a random handle to what looks as if thousands and thousands of individuals whereas claiming it was Dave Portnoy\u2019s. Both manner, it\u2019s a mind-blowing factor for a chatbot to submit \u2014 and vindication for anybody who criticized Musk for skipping out on <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/openai-anthropic-xai-grok-scandal\">Grok\u2019s safety features<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\"><strong>Extra on Grok: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/future-society\/grok-jewish-people-elon-musk\">Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk<br \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/future-society\/grok-dave-portnoy\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins \/ Futurism. Supply: Michael Hickey \/ Getty Photos Elon Musk\u2019s chatbot Grok is thought for a lot of issues: racism, antisemitism, and pedophilia, to call just a few. Including to that checklist seems to be, uh, doxxing \u2014 sure, critically, after the AI system appeared to disclose the precise house handle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1415,3240,8958,15097,6446,129,15098],"class_list":["post-23378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-address","tag-appears","tag-dave","tag-doxxed","tag-grok","tag-home","tag-portnoys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23379,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23378\/revisions\/23379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}