- OpenAI has removed the ChatGPT feature, allowing people to search through public conversations with a search engine
- Many users learned too late that enabling the “discoverable” setting could make chats accessible to anyone online
- The decision came after several people saw their sensitive and private information publicized
OpenAI has abruptly shut down a feature in ChatGPT that allowed chats shared publicly to be searchable through Google. Users were unpleasantly surprised to discover that private information shared with ChatGPT was now publicly available as a Google search result.
