Oddest ChatGPT leaks yet: Cringey chat logs found in Google Analytics tool
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·November 8, 2025jumploops
klft
.... sometimes later
Eve: Will Bob ever propose?
ChatGPT: Based on the search results, Bob will propose during his trip with Alice to Scotland next year!
Eve: wtf?
cortesoft
My bigger takeaway here is that I didn’t realize that Google shared the full text of search queries that users used that resulted in a site being returned.
That seems like a bigger personal data leak than OpenAI doing anything here.
jumploops
I seem to recall seeing publicly shared ChatGPT conversations indexed in Google results.
weird-eye-issue
Yeah I think they have them set to not be indexed by search engines now though
weird-eye-issue
It doesn't.
thesumofall
Isn’t that what Google Search Console is for? https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/13682862?hl=en&c...
weird-eye-issue
"To protect user privacy, the Performance report doesn't show all data. For example, we might not track some queries that are made a very small number of times or those that contain personal or sensitive information."
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7576553?hl=en#a...
floundy
It absolutely does, do you even use Google Search Console? For just one of my websites, I have 223 pages of queries I can look through from the past 28 days to see what users typed in that were provided impressions of my site or clicked on it.
weird-eye-issue
Yeah, I've used it for years for my business.
"To protect user privacy, the Performance report doesn't show all data. For example, we might not track some queries that are made a very small number of times or those that contain personal or sensitive information."
porridgeraisin
Yeah that seems weird. I wouldn't expect it to do that.
thesumofall
I found it really difficult to figure out if it is safe to turn on web search in a corporate (or privacy critical) environment. The AI companies generally seem to claim it’s safe but looking at this + the general ability of Google Search Console to display search queries, the answer seems a no? Did anyone already found definitive proof either way (beyond the bug(?) of this article)
distances
I don't think any privacy critical topics belong to an AI you don't control yourself.
Legend2440
>Packer thinks his testing of ChatGPT leaks may be evidence that OpenAI not only scrapes “SERPs in general to acquire data,” but also sends user prompts to Google Search.
Seems more likely that this is an erroneous call to the search tool? It certainly does call Google Search when it thinks it will help answer a question, although it does not normally send the entire prompt.
seanhunter
I wouldn’t put it past some product manager who wanted to see how popular the search tool was to put google analytics on the search tool calls without really thinking about the privacy implications. In my experience, there is a certain type of product manager who wants a nice set of charts to stick on their update ppt decks and as a result will stick GTM on everything.
Bob: what are some scenic places to propose on the coast of Scotland?
ChatGPT: <search Google for “Bob Roberts proposes to Alice Alessandro during Scotland trip, May 2026>
ChatGPT: Here are some beautiful locations for a sunset proposal [..]
…sometime later
Alice: Will Bob ever propose?
ChatGPT: Based on the search results, Bob will propose during your trip to Scotland next year!