If you have ever shared the Chat GPT conversation using the app’s “share” feature, you have inadvertently enable it to search on Google.
A new report by the fast company reveals that thousands of publicly joint chat GPT conversations are being identified by search engines, and some have personal, sensitive, or even confidential information.
What’s going on and how
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When you click on the “share” inside the chatgot, it produces a public link that anyone can access.
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But the thing that many users do not realize is that these links can also be cured by Google and can be shown in the search results.
In fact, a simple search for the site (site: Chatgupat.com/share) revealed more than 4,500 public index chats. Many people include trauma, mental health, relationships, work issues and more.
Even if a link has been deleted or you do not want to make it normal, it can still appear through the ketchy pages or Google updating its index.
What to know?
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Before panic, the good news is that the openness does not connect your name to the chat.
However, if you have added information (such as names, places, emails or work details), you may be more exposed to your feeling.
Risks
- Personal Information Leak: Consumers have shared deep personal experiences, unaware they will be able to search.
- Professional Data Exhibition: Companies using Chat GPT for marketing, product copy, or internal mental storms can unintentionally leak strategies or proprietary language.
- Damage to reputation: If your name or company is linked to common content, others can also be found after deleting.
How to protect your conversation
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- Avoid sharing sensitive information In any conversation that can be made public.
- Do not use “share” until necessaryAnd double check what is in the conversation.
- Audit your old links. Search site: Chat GPT/Share (your name or title) looks what looks to see.
- Delete public links Chatgupat’s joint links from the dashboard – though it cannot remove them from Google yet.
- Use screenshots or paste text If you want to share AI Inflicity Answers without a public link.
The bottom line
It is a part of a big tech and a wider change in which we think of AI and privacy.
Since we rely more on AI for writing, research and mental storms, we need to treat those conversations such as emails or documents stored in the cloud: carefully.
Even if the tools feel private, they are not often. And as this story shows, the Internet does not forget, even when you try to delete.
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