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Oops! Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI (venturebeat.com)
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Oops! Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI::Gagan Ghotra observed that Google Search had begun to index shared Bard conversational links into its search results pages, potentially...

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[–] HeavyDogFeet@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is anyone really surprised by this?

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 59 points 2 years 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@iusearchlinux.fyi 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] panbroggi@feddit.it 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 8 points 2 years 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.

[–] nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

perhaps not malice but certainly negligence

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This shouldn't be an 'oops'

Somebody should goto jail for it.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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