
If you've ever used ChatGPT to look something up online, you probably assumed your conversation was private — even when the chatbot searched the web on your behalf. But a recent glitch proves that assumption might not always hold.
Earlier this month, developers began noticing something strange in their Google Search Console dashboards. Instead of short keyword-based queries, they were seeing full, human-like sentences — the kind you’d expect to type into ChatGPT, not Google. These oddly specific entries raised an eyebrow, then alarm. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time this has happened.