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🩸ChatGPT Privacy Leak: Thousands of Conversations Now Publicly Indexed by Google

Ali Farhat on August 01, 2025

Google has indexed thousands of ChatGPT conversations — exposing sensitive prompts, private data, and company strategies. Here's what happened, why...
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Pranamya Rajashekhar •

Well this definitely is a reminder to carefully think about what I'm sharing over the prompt instead of mindlessly copy pasting details to ChatGPTšŸ˜…

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Safwen Barhoumi •

This seriously damages ChatGPT’s credibility! it’s not just about leaked business secrets, but also deeply personal information šŸ”.
The fact that such data was exposed without proper protection is alarming āš ļø.
It’s no surprise this could lead to major user distrust and hesitation to use the platform again šŸ™…ā€ā™‚ļø.

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leob • • Edited

How is this ChatGPT's (or Google's for that matter) fault? Users shouldn't naively click "Share" if they don't want the info to become public ... this isn't a security leak or whatever, it's "operator error" :)

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Ali Farhat •

This makes you think twice before using chatgpt as you personal psychologist šŸ˜…

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Safwen Barhoumi •

Or maybe it’s better not to overthink it just steer clear altogether

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Ingo Steinke, web developer •

they clicked "share"

so what? where is the breach?

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Khriji Mohamed Ahmed •

This is a powerful reminder that "public" on the internet means truly public and once it's indexed, it's out of your hands.
The fact that prompt data, often containing sensitive or strategic info, is being exposed through basic link sharing is alarming. It's not just a privacy issue it's a governance and workflow design issue.
Teams working with AI need more than just policies. They need systems in place middleware, access control, auditing to actively protect their data.
Thanks for the clear breakdown and action steps, Mr.Ali. This deserves a lot more visibility.

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Ali Farhat •

Thank you brother! And yes, this makes you think twice before entering any personal data into any AI related chatbot

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Alexander Ertli •

Thanks for raising awareness on this.

It's a critical reminder not only on what we share as users but also for all of us building in the AI space. Incidents like this aren't just edge cases; they're symptoms of deeper governance gaps as pointed out in the post.

I think we have a responsibility to bake privacy and compliance into our architectures from day one and not treat them as afterthoughts.

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Accio by Alibaba Group •

This discussion really hits home for AI-powered sourcing platforms like ours. At Accio AI, we're constantly balancing the need for transparency (like real supplier pricing and capabilities) with secure data practices. The key insight we've found? Context-aware permissions - keeping sensitive business information visible where it creates value, while automatically applying the right protections based on user roles and relationships

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Rolf W •

Whaaaaat!!?????

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Ali Farhat •

Yes!!

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Saadman Rafat • • Edited

So, If I may summarize!

GPT → scraped → Google → indexed → scraped again → GPT.

ChatGPT conversation URLs are meant to be shared, Also It's ironic that ChatGPT failed to take basic measures like robots.txt

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Nerando Johnson •

We never saw this coming y ?

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Ali Farhat •

I will stop copy-paste my .env file into chatgpt šŸ˜…šŸ˜…

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BBeigth •

I would not do that anymore if I were you šŸ˜…

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Paulo Victor Leite Lima Gomes • • Edited

Fun fact is that Sam is always saying they will launch a revolutionary feature. This one was impactful for sure

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Ali Farhat •

Isn't this revolutionary already lol

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aymen khriji •

that makes me think twice before going deeply into sharing personal files .

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Ali Farhat •

Yes! Done with that lol

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chatt kush •

I think now this has been fix by openAI so we dont need to worry much. And its always better to not share personal and private info with any model or any one on web.

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Ali Farhat •

šŸ™Œ šŸ™Œ

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CH •

But what's exactly the issue. You have to press "share" first, right? To then have these documents public. Please explain. I know nothing about privacy or computers.

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Joran •

Really shocking. Today I shared some chats for testing. See if google picks it up.

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Ali Farhat •

Yes, it's insaine right?

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Michael Brook •

wow. thats crazy

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