After Backlash, ChatGPT Removes Option to Have Private Chats Indexed by Google

From PC Mag: Following publication of this story, OpenAI removed all chats from Google search results, along with the checkbox in ChatGPT that enabled users to make them discoverable. When you search site:chatgpt.com/share on Google, there are no longer any results.

The chats are still appearing in other search engines, such as Bing and DuckDuckGo, as of this writing since the feature is still "rolling out to all users," says OpenAI CISO Dan Stuckey. (Here's one where someone fights with the chatbot, and asks it about the history of political corruption.)

"Ultimately, we think this feature introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn't intend to, so we're removing the option," Stuckey says. "We're also working to remove indexed content from the relevant search engines."

An OpenAI spokesperson confirms to PCMag that it was an "experiment" that has now ended.

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