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Grok reportedly disclosed an adult performer's legal name and birthdate in an X reply, followed by reported impersonation accounts and leak-site posts under the legal name

In early 2026 (404 Media and the performer's 19 February post say early February, while Stern reports she found the reply weeks after it appeared) an X user replied to a clip of adult performer Siri Dahl, asking who the performer was and what her name was, and tagged Grok. According to 404 Media, Grok answered with her stage name, her birthdate and her legal name, and the user likely wanted only to know which performer appeared in the clip. Dahl has used the stage name since 2012 according to 404 Media, and she says she had paid for data removal services for at least six years to keep the legal name private. She reports that impersonating Facebook accounts and leak-site posts under the legal name then appeared and that the name spread across hundreds of websites. 404 Media reports that users asked Grok for the make and model of her car and her address without an accurate reply, and that she is calling family members to put defensive plans in place. Grok's reply to her protest said the details were already public, which she denies. Where Grok obtained the name is unknown. Dahl spoke publicly about the event and asked 404 Media to publish her legal name. This record omits the legal name and birthdate.

AI system
Grok
xAI
Occurred
2026
Reported
19 February 2026
Event location
Unknown
What the AI did
Made a claim about the person · Communicated with the person
Reported harm
Other Material HarmExploitation or Abuse
Whose AI use
Someone else’s AI use
Setting
Privacy · Everyday life
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 6 sources, 3 underlying accounts
4 claims: 1 disputed, 3 reported. 7 open questions
People reported harmed
1 person

AI system as recorded: Grok (xAI chatbot on X)

Reported harm

The performer told 404 Media and said in her own posts that after Grok's reply gave her legal name and birthdate, impersonating Facebook accounts and leak-site posts under the legal name appeared and her legal name was reproduced on hundreds of websites (some with inaccurate claims). 404 Media reports that users asked Grok for her car details and address without an accurate reply and that she is calling family members to put defensive plans in place. She says she had spent years and thousands of dollars on data removal services to keep the name private. No physical harm or threat is reported.

What remains unknown

  • The date of Grok's reply within January and February 2026 is not fixed. 404 Media and the performer's 19 February post say early February, while a 23 February post refers to 'before Jan 20th' and stern.de says she found the reply weeks after it appeared.
  • The 404 Media page returned only its opening paragraphs to a direct request. The full text was read from an Internet Archive capture dated 19 February 2026, which may differ from later edits.
  • The original Grok reply, the screenshots, the impersonating Facebook accounts, the leak-site posts and the queries about her car and address were not inspected. The performer's Bluesky posts were read as text records, and her X posts only as quoted by Mashable.
  • Where Grok obtained the legal name is unknown. The performer says she does not know and wonders whether identity documents submitted to X for impersonation reports were the source, and no source read confirms or rules that out.
  • Whether the name was already published before the reply is disputed (claim c4). The earlier Facebook page and X post that people cited to her were not located or inspected.
  • No statement from xAI or X about the disclosure was found. 404 Media reports that X did not respond and Mashable reports that it asked the performer's representatives and xAI for comment.
  • The extent of the harassment beyond the performer's own statements, and whether the reported family measures were carried out, is not documented.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. 404 Media reports that Grok's reply on X to a user's question gave the performer's legal name and birthdate, and shows a screenshot that was not inspected as an image. Mashable quotes a further Grok reply to the performer on X ("I'm sorry you're upset.") that said the details were already public. Grok's source for the name is unknown. The performer suggests it may have come from identity documents X held, and stern.de says Grok denied having such access. No xAI statement was found.

4 claims: 1 disputed, 3 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported In early 2026 (early February according to 404 Media and the performer, possibly earlier according to Stern), in reply to an X user who asked who the performer in a clip was and what her name was and tagged Grok, Grok answered with the performer's stage name together with her birthdate and legal name. 404 Media describes the personal details as unprompted and says the user likely wanted only to know which performer appeared in the clip.

Causal attribution. The 404 Media article shows a screenshot of the X reply that was not inspected as an image. Mashable relays 404 Media. The affected person's own post gives the same account and dates the reply to early February. Grok's own reply text is not quoted here because it contains the personal details.

  • 404media.co(opens in new tab) supports · English
    Porn performer Siri Dahl’s personal information, including her full legal name and birthday, was publicly exposed earlier this month by xAI’s Grok chatbot.
  • 404media.co(opens in new tab) supports · English
    so someone on X replied, “Who is she? What is her name?” and tagged @grok to get an answer.
  • 404media.co(opens in new tab) supports · English
    Grok provided her personal information unprompted; the user likely only wanted information on what performer appeared in the clip.
  • mashable.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    revealing her legal name and birth date to users
  • bsky.app(opens in new tab) supports · English
    Since grok doxxed me in early Feb, AI scrapers have reproduced my legal name on hundreds more websites
  • bsky.app(opens in new tab) supports · English
    I asked 404 to publish my legal name in this article.
Reported After the disclosure the performer reports that impersonating Facebook accounts using her legal name appeared, that stolen clips of her were posted under her legal name on leak sites, and that her legal name was reproduced on hundreds of other websites, some with inaccurate claims about her. 404 Media reports that users asked Grok for the make and model of her car and her address without an accurate reply, and that she is calling family members to put defensive plans in place.

Causal attribution. The Facebook accounts, leak-site posts and the family measures are the performer's statements as quoted by 404 Media and in her own post. The queries to Grok about her car and address are stated in 404 Media's own voice. The impersonating accounts, leak-site posts and Grok queries were not inspected. The timing ("almost instantly") is 404 Media's wording. No physical harm or threat is reported.

  • 404media.co(opens in new tab) supports · English
    Almost instantly, harassers started opening Facebook accounts in her name and posting stolen porn clips with her real name on sites for leaking OnlyFans content.
  • 404media.co(opens in new tab) supports · English
    There are a ton of Facebook accounts that come up that are pretending to be me, using my real name,
  • 404media.co(opens in new tab) supports · English
    There are now porn leak sites that are posting porn of me using only my legal name, not even putting my stage name on it.
  • 404media.co(opens in new tab) supports · English
    Users are now asking Grok for the make and model of Dahl’s car, her address, and other dangerous personal information.
  • 404media.co(opens in new tab) supports · English
    Now, Dahl is having to call her family and put defensive plans in place.
  • bsky.app(opens in new tab) supports · English
    AI scrapers have reproduced my legal name on hundreds more websites, many of which have wildly inaccurate claims
Reported The performer had used her stage name since 2012 and had paid for data removal services for at least six years to keep her legal name private.

Causal attribution. The performer's own account as reported by 404 Media. Her data removal spending was not documented.

Disputed Whether the legal name was already publicly available before Grok's reply is disputed. Grok's reply to the performer said the details were already public, and people told her a Facebook page carried the name since September. The performer denies it and says the name was never published on a verifiable source tied to her stage name. Stern reports that Google's AI summaries list the name as unknown and that ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini each say they would not release it.

Causal attribution. The pre-existing availability of the name was not established either way. The Facebook page and any earlier X post were not inspected. The September date comes from replies the performer relays, and the year is not stated.

  • mashable.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    It stated that Dahl's legal name and birthdate are already public on the internet, which Dahl denied.
  • bsky.app(opens in new tab) supports · English
    been getting a lot of replies and reposts from people on here and twitter saying "your name was on a random facebook page since september!"
  • bsky.app(opens in new tab) contradicts · English
    and my *real* name was NEVER published on any verifiable source associated with my stage name.
  • mashable.com(opens in new tab) contradicts · English
    "My legal name only became public after you doxxed me, and now thanks to you it's been proliferated all over the internet by other AI scrapers
  • 404media.co(opens in new tab) context · English
    Dahl said she doesn’t know where Grok originally got her legal name from.
  • stern.de(opens in new tab) context · German
    Bei Googles KI-Zusammenfassungen wird der Name als nicht bekannt angegeben.

Sources

6 sources inspected, from 3 underlying accounts. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

German-language article read from an Internet Archive capture of 3 March 2026 (the direct request returned HTTP 403) and cited in English paraphrase. The quoted German passages are verbatim. No human translator checked the paraphrase. Applies to s6.

Event countries: Unknown. Affected-person countries: Unknown. Court countries: Unknown.

The inspected sources do not state where the performer lives or where the disclosure and harassment occurred. The disclosure happened on X, which is international. Grok's quoted description of the performer's nationality is not used as a location.

Reviewed for publication 2026-09-29: The 404 Media article (full text via an archive capture), the Mashable article, three of the performer's Bluesky posts and the stern.de article were read. Mashable and stern.de relay 404 Media, and 404 Media and the performer's posts rest on her account, so the claims are reported and the prior-availability question is left disputed. The performer spoke publicly under her stage name, quoted by two outlets and in her own posts, and asked 404 Media to publish her legal name. The record names her and omits her legal name, birthdate and the pages that carry them.

People reported harmed in this case

1 person

0 AI participants · 1 other person harmed

One performer who spoke publicly about the disclosure is reported harmed. Family members are mentioned as people she is warning and are not reported harmed, and the X user who asked Grok is not counted.

Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.

Cite this case

Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.

APA

NOPE. (2026). Grok reportedly disclosed an adult performer's legal name and birthdate in an X reply, followed by reported impersonation accounts and leak-site posts under the legal name. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2026-x-grok-reportedly-disclosed-adult-performer-legal-name-and-birthdate-in-reply-to-user

BibTeX

@misc{2026_x_grok_reportedly_disclosed_adult_performer_legal_name_and_birthdate_in_reply_to_user,
  title = {Grok reportedly disclosed an adult performer's legal name and birthdate in an X reply, followed by reported impersonation accounts and leak-site posts under the legal name},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2026-x-grok-reportedly-disclosed-adult-performer-legal-name-and-birthdate-in-reply-to-user}
}

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