ChatGPT chats were appearing on Google; OpenAI says, “We have just removed a feature that…”

OpenAI confirmed it has disabled the feature in ChatGPT that made public conversations searchable on platforms like Google. The company described it as a brief test run, noting that it “created too many chances for users to unintentionally expose information they hadn’t meant to share.”

OpenAI’s Chief Information Security Officer, Dane Stuckey, announced in a post on X (previously known as Twitter) that the feature enabling public ChatGPT chats to appear in search engine results has been removed from the platform.