Openai removes Google Chatgpt conversations

Openai removed a feature that made joint ChatgPT conversations appear in the search results. The “short -term experience” was based on the option to create a Chatbot connection. After complaints, Openai Information Security Officer, Dane Stuckey, He said The company works to remove chats from search engines.

General anger stems from a Fast company condition From early this week (via Art Technica). Fast company She said she found thousands of ChatGPT conversations in Google’s search results. The indexed chats did not explicitly include identifying information. But in some cases, its contents contained specific details that could refer to the source.

To be clear, this was not a penetration or leakage. It has been linked to a square that users can place a mark when creating a sharing URL to chat. In the popup to create a general link, the option “Make this chat to discovered” appeared. The direct interpretation (“allows its display in the searches on the web”) appeared with a smaller and more lashes below. Users had to place this box to make the chat indexed.

You may wonder why people who create a general link to chat face a problem that their contents are in general. but Fast company He pointed out that people could have made URLs share them in correspondence applications or as an easy way to reconsider the chats later. Regardless, the option of discovering the audience is now.

in Fast companyReport, Stuckey defended the advantage of describing the feature as “clear enough”. But after screaming, Openai retreated. “Ultimately, we believe that this feature provided a lot of opportunities to people to share the things they did not interact in a way, so we remove the option,” Stucky announced on Thursday.