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ChatGPT chats were indexed then removed from search but still remain online

Over 100,000 ChatGPT chats were shared publicly. Some were indexed, many archived. What went wrong, what it means for SEO & what happens next.

Others included internal business plans, sensitive political views, confessions of cheating on academic work, or deeply personal struggles. Pete Sena illustrated the issue in real time, sharing Google searches that surfaced deeply personal ChatGPT conversations directly from OpenAI’s domain. Mark Graham, the director of the Internet Archive, responded to van Ess’s inquiry by saying that if OpenAI requested the removal of chatgpt.com/share URLs, they would likely honor it.

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