Your Shared ChatGPT Chats May Be Publicly Searchable – Here’s How to Delete Them

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Private chats appear in public Google results
A series of startling discoveries have revealed that some conversations shared via ChatGPT’s “Share” feature have been indexed by Google, putting sensitive user information in the public domain.
Originally designed to promote user collaboration, shared ChatGPT links are now turning up in simple Google searches. To make matters worse, some of them even contain legal names, email addresses and even private emotional confessions.
OpenAI’s sharing feature lets users generate unique URLs linking to their AI conversations. However, when these links are posted online, or if users opt to make them “discoverable,” they can be picked up by search engines. Many users, it seems, didn’t expect that their chats, once thought to be semi-private, would become easily searchable.
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