Shared ChatGPT conversations showed up in Google search results
A ChatGPT option to make shared chats discoverable led to thousands of conversations being indexed by Google, some containing names, CVs, mental health details and business information. OpenAI removed the feature and worked with search engines to de-index the links.
- Disclosed
- 31 Jul 2025
- Organization
- OpenAI
- Vendor
- OpenAI
- Model
- ChatGPT
- Product
- ChatGPT
- Kind of AI
- Chatbot
- AI's role
- AI was the target
- How it happened
- Leaky AI product: Accidental publication
- Harm
- Data exposed
- Data involved
- Chat logs, Personal data
- Reach
- One organization
- Records
- 4,500
- Severity
- Medium
- Model at fault
- No
- Status
- Confirmed