Your shared AI chat can end up in Google
You share a chat with a friend, using the share button. Weeks later, a stranger finds it by searching Google. It has happened with Grok, ChatGPT and Meta AI.
The share button is handy. You ask an AI for advice, it gives a good answer, and you send the link to a friend. What most people don’t realise: that link is a public page. And public pages can be found by search engines.
What happened
- Grok, August 2025. Every time someone shared a Grok conversation, it got its own web address, and Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo indexed those pages. Hundreds of thousands of conversations became searchable, including chats about hacking, drugs and very personal topics (TechCrunch, based on reporting by Forbes).
- ChatGPT, summer 2025. Shared ChatGPT conversations showed up in Google too. OpenAI called the option that made this possible a “short-lived experiment” and removed it.
- Meta AI users were affected by a similar problem around the same time.
Why it matters
The people in these chats rarely meant to publish anything. They wanted to show one friend an answer. But a shared chat contains everything in it: the question, the names, the details. Once a page is in a search engine, deleting the link doesn’t always remove the copies.
Check your own links
- In ChatGPT: Settings → Data controls → Shared links. Delete what you don’t need.
- Don’t share chats about your health, your relationships or your money. Copy the part you need instead.
- Search for your own name together with the name of the AI service, just to be sure.
Where Kamelo helps
When you type something personal on an AI chat site, Kamelo notices it on your computer and suggests a better place to ask: a temporary chat, or Melo, Kamelo’s private chat. In Chrome, Melo answers on your own computer. There’s no share link and nothing is stored, so there’s nothing to end up in Google.