Audit your old links; search site:chatgpt.com/share [your name or topic] to see what’s visible. Delete public links from ChatGPT’s Shared Links dashboard — though this may not remove them from Google right away. Use screenshots or paste text if you want to share AI-generated answers without a public link.

OpenAI has abruptly shut down a feature in ChatGPT that allowed chats shared publicly to be searchable through Google. Users were unpleasantly surprised to discover that private information shared with ChatGPT was now publicly available as a Google search result.