Thousands of Chatgpt Exchanges were publicly indexed on Google

It is a bitter reminder of the fact that any function built into the software can and will be poorly used. In an article published on July 30, media Fast company He revealed that thousands of conversations with Chatgpt found themselves indexed by Google, and therefore publicly accessible to anyone who knows what to look for.

The fear that is now partially corrected comes from the misunderstanding of Internet users in the face of the function added to the chatgpt a few months ago.

Misunderstanding of the sharing system

As Openai’s security manager explains in Tweet, the “Sharing” feature has been added by a box that entitles the search engines to index the content of the exchange. If this feature (which appeared last April) was deactivated by default, it seems that its operation was sufficiently explicit and forced many Internet users to publicly discover the content of their discussions with a conversational robot.

Therefore, a Google Research animal with the right words can bring 4500 and some exchanges in which Internet users sometimes involve serious problems or offer a robot personal data. If the public discussion does not include the name of the account that launched it, some are so full of identifiable information that it is not difficult to find the author or author.

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”We are of the opinion that this feature has offered too many opportunities to accidentally share data to remain private“, Konfect Dan Stuckey, OpenAi Security Head.” “Security is of significant importance and we will continue to work to reflect our products this commitment“, Spareje RSSI.

How to remove shared conversations

If the box has been removed from the Chatgpt interface, unfortunately thousands of discussions have not disappeared by indexed Google companies as if magic. Openai explains cooperation in accordance with search engines to erase this content, but a good package of discussions is still accessible to this day.

If you are unfortunately afraid to share discussions publicly, you can delete links Within the CHATGPT parameters In the section “Data management“”Shared links». This will not disappear from the disappearance on the Google results page, but their public consultations will no longer be possible.

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