Overview

• OpenAI removed the “Make this chat discoverable” checkbox on shared ChatGPT links after Fast Company revealed thousands of conversations in Google search results.
• CISO Dane Stuckey called the feature a “short-lived experiment” that risked accidental exposure and announced its removal on July 31.
• Indexed chats included sensitive personal and proprietary data such as mental health disclosures, legal confessions and corporate code.
• OpenAI is working with Google, Bing and other search engines to de-index affected links, though cached versions may remain accessible for some time.
• Meta AI continues to allow public chats in its Discover feed to be indexed by Google, underscoring divergent privacy defaults across AI platforms.