Tag Archives: ChatGPT

According to the latest edition of Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter, Apple has a new plan up its sleeve to rival the competition in the AI search space. This is a major pivot from Apple’s previous stance, where the company said it didn’t want to develop a chatbot. Apple Intelligence has been off to a rocky start, to say the …

AI firms have breached user privacy by allowing individuals to access chats through Google Search, and it seems that attempts to resolve this have failed. ChatGPT’s Conversations Can Be Accessed Through the Wayback Machine, Which Stores Pages Over the Internet For those unaware, folks on the internet recently discovered that the public can easily access ChatGPT’s chats through a simple …

There are hundreds of ways to prompt ChatGPT. While you can simply ask it a question, you can also try to get inside the AI model’s algorithm, writing prompts that best apply to its way of thinking. Alternatively, you can just think completely outside the box. One post on the popular Reddit forum ChatGPTPromptGenius did just this, listing out eight …

OpenAI has removed a feature that made shared ChatGPT conversations appear in search results. The “short-lived experiment” was based on the chatbot’s link creation option. After complaints, OpenAI’s chief information security officer, Dane Stuckey, said the company is working to remove the chats from search engines. The public outrage stems from a Fast Company article from earlier this week (via …

After Backlash, ChatGPT Removes Option to Have Private Chats Indexed by Google  PCMag Exclusive: Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data  Fast Company ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results  Ars Technica OpenAI quickly rolled back a new feature that allowed users to make private conversations with ChatGPT searchable  Business Insider Your public ChatGPT queries are …

Faced with mounting backlash, OpenAI removed a controversial ChatGPT feature that caused some users to unintentionally allow their private—and highly personal—chats to appear in search results. Fast Company exposed the privacy issue on Wednesday, reporting that thousands of ChatGPT conversations were found in Google search results and likely only represented a sample of chats “visible to millions.” While the indexing …

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI made a rare about-face Thursday, abruptly discontinuing a feature that allowed ChatGPT users to make their conversations discoverable through Google and other search engines. The decision came within hours of widespread social media …

Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines. The company says this was a short-lived experiment that ultimately “introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn’t intend to.” The original story follows. It’s a …

OpenAI quickly rolled back a new feature that allowed users to make private conversations with ChatGPT “discoverable” after the launch was marred by concerns of accidental oversharing. “We just removed a feature from @ChatGPTapp that allowed users to make their conversations discoverable by search engines, such as Google,” Dane Stuckey, OpenAI’s chief information security officer, announced via social media post …

OpenAI announced Tuesday the launch of Study Mode, a new feature within ChatGPT that aims to help students develop their own critical thinking skills, rather than simply obtain answers to questions. With Study Mode enabled, ChatGPT will ask users questions to test their understanding and, in some cases, refuse to offer direct answers unless students engage with the material. OpenAI says Study …