ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results (arstechnica.com)
from return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 18:54
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PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social on 01 Aug 18:59 next collapse

lol this was on purpose

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works on 01 Aug 19:12 next collapse

Well I’m shocked more people don’t ignore the flashing lights at train stations and just drive into the tracks right in front the trains frankly.

Nougat@fedia.io on 01 Aug 19:32 next collapse

They kind of do.

flandish@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 20:46 collapse

unrelated but kinda related - I’m a firefighter. Often seen folks driving toward the scene lights like moths. Can be sketchy sometimes. I suspect it’s the collimated leds just piercing into the brains of the already distracted drivers.

SheeEttin@lemmy.zip on 01 Aug 22:17 collapse

Target fixation. If you’re looking at something, you drift towards it.

simplejack@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 19:28 next collapse

‘Make this chat discoverable.’ Beneath that, in smaller, lighter text, was a caveat explaining that the chat could then appear in search engine results."

UX designer here. People don’t read the little gray supporting text. “Search Engine” should’ve been in the headline.

Feyd@programming.dev on 01 Aug 20:22 collapse

I’ve always been under the impression that the little grey supporting text being little and grey is because the designer didn’t want it read but was required to put it somewhere. A dark pattern, if you will. Is it actually not intended that way?

simplejack@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 21:40 collapse

When it’s used correctly, it should be adding a little extra color or context that’s not critical for most users, but will be helpful to a certain segment.

Or it’s bullshit that you -know- the user doesn’t care about, but it’s needed to make some person or department happy.

Or it’s a dark pattern.

motor_spirit@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 19:30 next collapse

the ignorance required to lean into ‘AI’ in such a way all but ensures this

it’s pretty telling that I hear AI talked about and seemingly used most by conservative types, I imagine because it’s being pushed by influencers in that realm and the same people bankrolling ‘AI’ everywhere. people that are already comfortable with blind faith… makes a bit of sense

then you still have people who are used to challenging and questioning things still upholding skepticism and not trusting ai because it all reeks of shit

AI for next pope!

Eldritch@piefed.world on 01 Aug 19:45 collapse

That and conservatives abhor thinking. They need someone or something to defer to. And LLMs can give them all sorts of moderately intelligent bullshit they've come to expect . From their leaders and politicians. But better and faster. With possibly even less accuracy.

DarkCloud@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 20:30 next collapse

Says in the article the users clicked “share chat” then shared the links with others on services like What’s App.

Sounds like What’s App should get some flack for this too.

TheFogan@programming.dev on 01 Aug 21:17 collapse

I don’t see why, least my understanding, you hit share chat, it creates a public link… google’s robots discover everything public and index it. Seems to me like the same problem would happen if you generated a link to share on any platform, and burned it and never sent information to any platform. Unless googles indexing all whatsapp messages, but that would be a much bigger story.

Anyway point is blame IMO falls on either chatgpt for not properly configuring a robots.txt, or google for not following it.

DarkCloud@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 21:39 next collapse

I don’t know what the deal is, just that the article specifically names What’s App.

SheeEttin@lemmy.zip on 01 Aug 22:16 next collapse

How does it discover the link though? Is it crawling your whatsapp chats, or just trying every possible chatgpt share link?

TheFogan@programming.dev on 01 Aug 23:17 next collapse

sounds to me just like googles bots are finding them… could also just be maybe chrome or similar taking note when it finds a page and dropping a dime to google.

kurwa@lemmy.world on 02 Aug 00:01 next collapse

Y’all need to read the 5 minute article. It was a short lived feature where they had a checkbox that said: “index my chat into search engines”. Which is honestly dumb as shit if you ask me.

[deleted] on 02 Aug 08:19 collapse

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interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml on 01 Aug 23:53 collapse

Google’s search bots shouldn’t find chats except through dumb luck.
Because without the GUID, it’s nearly impossible to find any shared chats at all. That’s just how GUIDs work

tisktisk@piefed.social on 01 Aug 20:33 next collapse

wait, even if I only used duck.ai?

Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org on 01 Aug 23:10 collapse

No

tisktisk@piefed.social on 01 Aug 23:14 collapse

it claims to be private, but also couldn't answer me when I asked how I could verify that claim

salacious_coaster@infosec.pub on 01 Aug 20:58 next collapse

Are these the same users that think the sycophant machine really loves them?

DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works on 01 Aug 21:10 next collapse

Shocked, shocked I tell ya.

Insert Casablanca.gif

PattyMcB@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 22:04 next collapse

Oh no. Anyway.

My only thought is “no shit”

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net on 01 Aug 22:42 next collapse

When you share something it’s not private anymore! More news at 23:00!

BangCrash@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 22:59 collapse

Its one thing to not be private. Its an entirely different thing for that thing to be crawled, indexed and published on the world’s biggest catalogue

raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 23:30 next collapse

When it’s chats with LLMs trained on this very type of data, it’s mostly the user’s fault. Of course, executives of LLM companies should still rot in prison.

Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone on 01 Aug 23:48 collapse

It’s totally avoidable if you don’t use it, but I think the onus is mostly on the companies for advertising these chat bots as like, a friendly personal assistant when that’s absolutely not what they are. Like all “AI” shit, it runs mostly on consumer deception.

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net on 02 Aug 05:37 next collapse

Not on the internet it’s not.

Womble@piefed.world on 02 Aug 08:22 collapse

Yep, and when you click a button that liteally says "make this discoverable on search engines" which is off by defualt, its the later.

ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 23:33 next collapse

Apparently these people ticked a box saying “allow this chat to be indexed by search engines” and were surprised when their chats were indexed by search engines?

interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml on 01 Aug 23:52 collapse

Where is that box ?

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d3304117-f70c-41cd-9e42-54b467164b04.png">

even here

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/f94bf9f0-7d02-4ccd-8a86-a22a7604a050.png">

It’s not there either

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/eb078eb9-6706-4d85-9c8c-1b5d1678110d.png">

kurwa@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 23:58 collapse

It’s in the article, it said it was a short lived experiment.

interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml on 02 Aug 00:11 collapse

I remember seeing the check box option appear to directly index to google, this explains why I can’t find it anymore.
I tried searching unique things in my shared text and couldn’t find any of them on the goog

ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works on 01 Aug 23:55 next collapse

I mean, we knew this…

mechoman444@lemmy.world on 02 Aug 00:35 next collapse

Omg! Now everyone will know about my erectile dysfunction!

C1pher@lemmy.world on 02 Aug 01:56 next collapse

Seems like a skill issue to be honest. Bunch of boomers checking boxes they dont understand, since thats entirely optional thing to create. Those public links arent created by themselves.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 02 Aug 08:12 next collapse

how are they shocked, when they also get blog posts, and other posts being summarized on the AI search?

4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de on 02 Aug 15:39 collapse

FAFO.