Oops! Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI

NeoNachtwaechter , 10 months ago

This shouldn’t be an ‘oops’

Somebody should goto jail for it.

tdawg , 10 months ago

While I agree in principle that we need more accountability for tech companies I don’t think jail time really fits the situation. Maybe some sort of damages to those affected would make more sense

nick , 10 months ago

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

Nindelofocho , 10 months ago

perhaps not malice but certainly negligence

HeavyDogFeet , 10 months ago

Is anyone really surprised by this?

GenderNeutralBro , 10 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.

Flaky , 10 months ago

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

panbroggi , 10 months ago

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

Flaky , 10 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.