ChatGPT stops sharing conversations with search engines.

Conversations with ChatGPT were indexed by Google and other search engines. Accessible under the domain https://chatgpt.com/share, some of these discussions were harmless (renovation advice, cooking recipes), but others contained enough details to identify the user, such as CV rewrites. Others still revealed strange or awkward questions.

A short-term experiment

OpenAI has ended this experiment. Dane Stuckey, the company's head of information security, confirmed the removal of this feature that allowed users to make their conversations visible to search engines. « It was a short-term experience aimed at helping people discover useful exchanges », he explains.

Sharing with search engines wasn't automatic, fortunately. You had to go into a conversation's settings, create a public link, and click the option to share publicly. But still, this function « exposed users to too many risks of accidental sharing of sensitive content ». Names, queries, and messages added after sharing remained private.

In light of the concerns, OpenAI decided to remove this feature. The director adds that the company is working on the removal of indexed content, a change that will take effect by tomorrow morning (Saturday, August 2nd).

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Source : TechCrunch