OpenAI does away with feature that made ChatGPT conversations discoverable by Google

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• OpenAI has removed a feature allowing ChatGPT conversations to be indexed by the Google search engine. The action comes following a growing number of complaints about user privacy. The company called it a “short-lived experiment.”

OpenAI’s “short-lived experiment” with letting people share their ChatGPT conversations with Google’s search engine has come to a close.