ChatGPT Confessions gone? They are not !

ChatGPT scrubbed today nearly 50,000 shared conversations from Google's index after our investigation. They thought they'd solved the problem. They were wrong.

A new Digital Digging investigation, conducted with Belgian researcher Nicolas Deleur, has uncovered 110,000 ChatGPT conversations preserved via Archive.org's Wayback Machine—a digital time capsule OpenAI can break with a request to take the chats down, but they didn’t yet. I asked the director of the Wayback Machine, Mark Graham, to comment. Graham: “I can/will tell you we have not gotten, or honored any requests for (large scale) URL exclusion of "chatgpt.com/share" URLs. If OpenAI, the rights holder for material from the domain chatgpt.com, asked for the exclusion of URLs from the URL pattern chatgpt.com we would probably honor that request. However, they have not made such a request”

While OpenAI scrambled to de-index conversations from Google today, they forgot the internet's most basic rule—nothing truly disappears. Over 100.000 ChatGPT chats are still in Archive.org, although with a twist. The chats aren't just links or fragments. They're complete conversations, frozen in time, containing similar “confessions” we exposed yesterday. Users shared these chats publicly - not by default, but only by clicking Share.

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