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It’s a strange glimpse into the human mind: If you filter search results on Google, Bing, and other search engines to only include URLs from the domain “https://chatgpt.com/share,” you can find strangers’ conversations with ChatGPT.
Sometimes, these shared conversation links are pretty dull—people ask for help renovating their bathroom, understanding astrophysics, or finding recipe ideas. In another case, one user asks ChatGPT to rewrite their resume for a particular job application. Judging by this person’s LinkedIn, which was easy to find based on the details in the chat log, they did not get the job.
Someone else asks questions that sound like they came out of an incel forum. Another person questions the AI about whether they can microwave a metal fork (for the record: no), but they continue to ask increasingly absurd and trollish questions, eventually leading ChatGPT to create a guide called “How to Use a Microwave Without Summoning Satan: A Beginner’s Guide.”
ChatGPT does not make these conversations public by default. A conversation only gets a “/share” URL if the user deliberately clicks the “share” button and then confirms by clicking “create link.” The service also states that “your name, custom instructions, and any messages you add after sharing stay private.”
However, users probably do not anticipate that Google will index their shared ChatGPT links, potentially exposing personal information. Though unintentional, this is a norm partly established by Google. When people share public links to files from Google Drive—such as documents with the “Anyone with link can view” setting—Google may index them in search results.
However, Google generally does not surface Drive documents that haven’t been publicly posted elsewhere on the web. For example, a document may appear in search if it is linked on a trusted website. But this doesn’t seem to be the case for these ChatGPT logs. OpenAI did not provide comment before publication.
A Google spokesperson told TechCrunch, “Neither Google nor any other search engine controls what pages are made public on the web. Publishers of these pages have full control over whether they are indexed by search engines.”
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