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Nearly 100,000 ChatGPT Conversations Were Searchable on Google

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· Aug 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM

A researcher has scraped a much larger dataset of indexed ChatGPT conversations, exposing contracts and intimate conversations.

Nearly 100,000 ChatGPT Conversations Were Searchable on Google
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A researcher has scraped nearly 100,000 conversations from ChatGPT that users had set to share publicly and Google then indexed, creating a snapshot of all the sorts of things people are using OpenAI’s chatbot for, and inadvertently exposing. 404 Media’s testing has found the dataset includes everything from the sensitive to the benign: alleged texts of non-disclosure agreements, discussions of confidential contracts, people trying to use ChatGPT to understand their relationship issues, and lots of people asking ChatGPT to write LinkedIn posts.

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