Overview

• OpenAI removed the “Make this chat discoverable” checkbox after Fast Company and other outlets surfaced thousands of searchable ChatGPT links
• The company’s chief information security officer, Dane Stuckey, said new indexing is blocked and work is underway to purge existing links from Google and similar engines
• Despite Google takedowns, alternative search services such as Bing, DuckDuckGo and Brave Search continue to return cached shared chats
• Meta AI confirmed that it will keep allowing public chats to be indexed through its Discover feed and remain searchable on Google
• Privacy experts warn that unclear opt-in toggles and UI design failures can undermine default expectations of confidentiality in AI chat platforms