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Oops! Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI::Gagan Ghotra observed that Google Search had begun to index shared Bard conversational links into its search results pages, potentially...

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is anyone really surprised by this?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 11 months ago

I mean, Google has a relatively good history of account security, so yes, I am surprised a little.

Not surprised they're mining everyone's data, just surprised they're exposing it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Looks like it's indexing URLs which have been shared?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From what I understood, links to the conversation that have been created for sharing them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Yeah. ChatGPT does the same thing. I presume if you haven't used the share options you're good, but still. Big oof on Google's part.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think there's any malice here. Someone just forgot to put up a robots.txt on the bard website.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

perhaps not malice but certainly negligence