TechSupport: Nothing’s Private – Even Conversations with ChatGPT
TechStuff
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4.3 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
How did around 100,000 ChatGPT conversations end up indexed on Google? Users who sent conversations with a now-defunct “share” feature in ChatGPT made their conversations public — often without realizing they were exposing them to the open web. 404 Media’s Joseph Cox joins Oz and Karah to unpack how it happened, what kinds of chats were revealed, and why everyone should care about this privacy lapse. They discuss why OpenAI may have underestimated the privacy risks, how archived conversations could still be misused, and why both everyday users and major corporations need to rethink what they feed into AI tools.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
| 0:08.4 | All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
| 0:21.6 | he built. |
| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
| 0:27.3 | And then boom, it's everywhere. |
| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
| 0:30.7 | Listen if there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:48.7 | No. or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome to Tech Stuff. This is Tech Support. I'm Oz Veloshin and I'm here with Kara Price. |
| 0:53.5 | Hey, Oz. |
| 0:55.0 | Hey, Kara. So today we wanted to talk about this chat GPT feature, which is now defunct, but our friends |
| 1:01.3 | at 404 media had a story with the headline, nearly 100,000 chat GPT conversations were searchable |
| 1:08.2 | on Google. |
| 1:09.6 | And as soon as that email hit my inbox, before I'd |
| 1:11.5 | even read it, I forwarded it to you and to our producer Eliza, and I said, let's jump on this. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, you know, part of it is that it taps into this fear that we all have about our most |
| 1:20.2 | intimate thoughts being made public. This isn't like having a private Instagram account. |
| 1:24.5 | This is very much between us and chat GPT. It's a little bit like talking in |
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