It was discovered that when you share conversation content with Google's chat AI 'Bard', it will be displayed in Google search



Google's chat AI 'Bard' added '

the ability to share the contents of conversations with AI ' in the July 2023 update. It has been revealed that if you use this conversation sharing feature, your conversations with Bard will be indexed in Google search and made public to the world.

Google accidentally leaking Bard AI chats into public search results
https://www.fastcompany.com/90958811/google-was-accidentally-leaking-its-bard-ai-chats-into-public-search-results



Google To Block Bard Public Shared Conversations From Google Search
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-block-bard-shared-conversations-search-36119.html

Google Indexed Trove of Bard AI User Chats in Search Results
https://www.hackread.com/google-indexed-bard-ai-user-chats-search-results/

Google Search caught indexing users' conversations with Bard AI | VentureBeat
https://venturebeat.com/ai/oops-google-search-caught-publicly-indexing-users-conversations-with-bard-ai/

Gagan Ghotra, a search engine optimization (SEO) consultant, was the first to point out that conversations shared on Bard were being indexed by Google search. He wrote on X on September 26, 2023, 'Google has started indexing Bard's shared conversation URLs. Please do not share personal information with Bard within the conversation. It will be indexed and you will not be able to access that conversation from search. There is a possibility that your personal information will be displayed when you reach the site,'' and is concerned that personal information may be leaked if shared conversations are indexed.




AI critic Simon Willison says, ``By default all conversations with Bard are private, but there is a feature that allows you to share those conversations.However, this type of feature is usually not used by people with the link. 'People should think it's a conversation that only the public can see.'

Additionally, new research shows that users are willing to share personal information with chat AIs like ChatGPT, so if shared conversations continue to be indexed, a wide range of personal information may be unintentionally There is a risk that it will be exposed to the whole world.

In response to Ghotra's post, Google Search spokesperson Danny Sullivan said, ``On Bard, you can share your chats if you wish, and there are no plans for these shared chats to be indexed by Google Search.'' 'No. We are currently working to prevent shared conversations from being indexed,' he wrote, explaining that it was not intended for shared conversations to be indexed. In addition, a Google Search spokesperson also issued a similar statement to overseas media VentureBeat.




Search Engine Roundtable, an overseas media outlet, speculates that ``Google will block Google Search's index crawler by adding Bard's shared conversations to the robots.txt file ,'' and then It has been confirmed that Bard's shared conversations were added to the robots.txt file. However, you will need to use the deletion tool for shared conversations that have already been indexed.




In fact, if you search for ' site:bard.google.com/share ' on Google search, many shared conversations that someone somewhere created with Bard will appear in Google search results even at the time of article creation. However, Search Engine Roundtable points out that ``As of the 26th, there were twice as many Bard shared conversations indexed in Google Search as on the 27th,'' and it appears that deletion efforts are progressing little by little. is.



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