OpenAI will not let ChatGPT conversations discoverable on Google

The firm has eliminated the characteristic after a report in Fast Company discovered hundreds of conversations with the chatbot in search outcomes on Google. While these didn’t have straight identifiable data, a number of did comprise particular particulars that will assist in discovering who the human half of the dialog was.

OpenAI’s chief data safety officer, Dane Stuckey, in a post on Twitter/X introduced the characteristic’s elimination final week.

“This was a short-lived experiment to help people discover useful conversations,” he wrote. “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. We’re also working to remove indexed content from the relevant search engines…Security and privacy are paramount for us, and we’ll keep working to maximally reflect that in our products and features.”

While customers had to decide on to make the chatbot chats shareable through a pop-up window, and OpenAI initially mentioned it felt the labeling on the characteristic was “sufficiently clear,” there have been some considerations raised within the Fast Company story that individuals might have made the knowledge sharable with a view to ahead it solely to associates or family members.

The change in discoverability comes as OpenAI says ChatGPT is ready to hit 700 million weekly active users this week. That’s up from 500 million in March and quadruple what its utilization was only one yr in the past.

OpenAI secured $8.3 billion in funding final week and is anticipating revenues to prime $20 billion by the top of 2025.