Oddest Chatgpt Leaks Yet: Cringey Chat Logs Found in Google Analytics Tool
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ChatGPT chat logs were leaked through a Google Analytics tool, raising concerns about data privacy and the potential for sensitive information to be shared, with commenters debating the implications and potential causes of the leak.
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Seems more likely that this is an erroneous call to the search tool? It certainly does call Google Search when it thinks it will help answer a question, although it does not normally send the entire prompt.
That seems like a bigger personal data leak than OpenAI doing anything here.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7576553?hl=en#a...
"To protect user privacy, the Performance report doesn't show all data. For example, we might not track some queries that are made a very small number of times or those that contain personal or sensitive information."
I've worked in many GSC consoles over the years, and I've never seen anything like what I saw in this case. (I'm the original author)
ChatGPT: <search Google for “Bob Roberts proposes to Alice Alessandro during Scotland trip, May 2026>
ChatGPT: Here are some beautiful locations for a sunset proposal [..]
…sometime later
Alice: Will Bob ever propose?
ChatGPT: Based on the search results, Bob will propose during your trip to Scotland next year!
Eve: Will Bob ever propose?
ChatGPT: Based on the search results, Bob will propose during his trip with Alice to Scotland next year!
Eve: wtf?