(Reclaim The Net)—Private conversations with ChatGPT have been turning up in Google search results, raising alarm over how easily personal information can slip into the public domain when AI tools are used for sensitive discussions.
The problem surfaced when OpenAI tested a “discoverable” setting that let users deliberately share chats online. Anyone who ticked the box marked “make this chat discoverable” was told it would “be shown in web searches.”
While the feature stripped names from the transcripts, it did not remove the deeply personal nature of many exchanges, from confessions about harassment to candid fears and therapy-like conversations.
Journalist Luiza Jarovsky, who spotted the issue, posted on X that she had found examples of these personal exchanges appearing in Google’s index. Her findings showed how a simple misclick or hasty decision could leave private thoughts permanently searchable.
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