ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

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• simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ‘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.

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  • Feyd@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve always been under the impressing 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?

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    • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When it’s used correctly, it should be adding a little extra color or context that’s big 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.

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• motor_spirit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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!

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  • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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?

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Where is that box ?

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    even here

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    It’s not there either

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    • kurwa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • SheeEttin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• C1pher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Says in the article the users clocked “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.

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  • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • SheeEttin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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

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    • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • BangCrash@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Womble@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not on the internet it’s not.

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• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh no. Anyway.

  My only thought is “no shit”

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• PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  lol this was on purpose

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Shocked, shocked I tell ya.

  Insert Casablanca.gif

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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Omg! Now everyone will know about my erectile dysfunction!

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• 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  FAFO.

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• ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean, we knew this…

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• tisktisk@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  wait, even if I only used duck.ai?

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No

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    • tisktisk@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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