ChatGPT chats were indexed then removed from search but still remain online (growtika.com)

Not that I dislike criticizing OpenAI, but this seems to be a case of "your users are way dummer than you thought".

Like the button says "allow it to be shown in web searches". How can you misunderstand this?

Not sure why the links wouldn't be 404ing?

DuckDuckGo still has a lot of the share links indexed.

The file upload ones are particularly interesting. Lots of financial and market analysis stuff like this one: https://chatgpt.com/share/68805b2d-0bf0-8007-b325-b06160356c... (no PII in the chat)

Looks like Google and Archive.org removed the share URLs.

Yet another example of why you should assume that anything you type into a web form will become public either deliberately or accidentally.

This feels like it should be a non-controversy.

Even being uncharitable, a big off-by-default checkbox saying “make this discoverable in web searches” is roughly as explicit as you can possibly make this feature textually, assuming your users will be applying any reading comprehension.

If they’re not, no further warnings were going to save them, so short of removing the feature or gating it behind increasingly elaborate “if only you knew better!” emails or pop-up modals they also presumably would not be reading, this was the likely outcome.

At some point, I don’t feel bad saying this is a user-side PEBKAC, and that more alerting would be a waste of time.

The article says that after the fix, the "discoverable" option sets nofollow/noindex. If so, how are discoverable chats different from non-discoverable now?

What does this have to do with AI? If you're an idiot who can't read and doesn't understand that a shared chat will be publicly accessible, then nothing is going to help you.

This is a pretty huge PII leak.

I was able to find a bunch of job application shares that had uploaded CVs with full PII. Names, phone #s, address etc. Yikes!

Internet Archive didn’t need to archive them. They could do the right thing and remove the data. Maybe they have now based on some of the comments.