Your public chat GPT queries are indexed by Google and other search engines

It’s a strange glimpse into the human mind: you Filter search results Google, Bing, and other search engines can find stranger conversations with chatgpt, including only URLs from the domain “https://chatgpt.com/share”.

Sometimes these shared conversation links are pretty boring – people ask for help Renovating the bathroomUnderstand Astrophysicsand discovery Recipe Ideas.

In another case, one user asks ChatGpt to rewrite the resume for a particular recruitment application (judging from this person’s LinkedIn that they could easily find based on chat log details, they didn’t get the job). Someone else is asking a question that sounds like they’ve come out of the incel forum. Others ask if they can be a sneaky, hostile AI assistant Microwave metal fork (For the record: No), however, they continue to ask the AI more and more absurdly troll questions, leading them to create a guide called “How to Use a Microwave Without Summoning Satan: A Beginner’s Guide.”

ChatGpt does not publish these conversations by default.

The conversation will only be added at the “/share” URL if the user intentionally clicks the “Share” button in their chat and then the second “Create Link” button. The service also declares that “you name, custom instructions, and messages you add after sharing will remain private.”

However, users probably don’t expect Google to index shared ChatGPT links and betray your personal information (LinkedIn apologises to anyone discovering it).

Not intentional, but this is a standard established in part by Google. When you share public links to files on Google Drive, such as documents with the “can display links” setting, Google can index them in searches. However, Google usually does not surface links to drive documents that are not published to the web. For example, if you are linked to a trusted website, your document may appear in your search.

However, this does not seem to be the case with these ChatGPT logs. Openai did not provide any comments prior to its publication.

“Neither Google nor other search engines have any control over which pages are published on the web,” a Google spokesperson told TechCrunch. “The publishers of these pages have full control over whether they are indexed by search engines.”