[LINK] Re: ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

[David]

On Saturday, 2 August 2025 09:37:57 AEST Kim Holburn wrote:
> "When users clicked 'Share,' they were presented with an option to tick a box labeled 'Make this chat discoverable.' Beneath that, in smaller, lighter text, was a caveat explaining that the chat could then appear in search engine results."
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> At first, OpenAI defended the labeling as "sufficiently clear," Fast Company reported Thursday. But Stuckey confirmed that "ultimately," the AI company decided that the feature "introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn't intend to."

So does Google / OpenAI check that _all subscribers_ to a chat have agreed to make the content public, or only the currently active subscribers, or perhaps only the person who initially set it up, and how do they handle a new subscriber with a different intention?

Why would users wish to make their chats discoverable anyway?

Call me a cynic, but I have a vision of executives pacing around their offices with furrowed brows thinking "Dammit, we should have thought of that... how can we possibly compensate all those damaged "folks" before they sue?"

_DavidL_