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OpenAI removes a ChatGPT feature that let users make their conversations discoverable by Google and other search engines, calling it a "short-lived experiment" (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/31/your

Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines | TechCrunch
Search engines are indexing links to ChatGPT conversations that have been made sharable with a link.

To ChatGPT: In view of Neuralink PR, there must be a good reason why in their Summer 2025 Neuralink update they did not show any video of a monkey performing even a simple visual task with its Neuralink Blindsight brain implant. It is probably not performing well? https://chatgpt.com/share/686264d2-fad…

ChatGPT - Trump vs Hitler Comparison
Shared via ChatGPT

Mela: *gibt nach kurzem, erfolglosen Googlen genervt auf.*
Mela: „Hey ChatGPT, wie viel hat denn die Propyläen-Weltgeschichte im Halbledereinband original pro Band gekostet?“
ChatGPT: „Bla, fasel, laber …“
ChatGTP: „Wenn du magst, kann ich dir noch helfen, gezielt Antiquariate zu finden – oder dir beim Wertvergleich helfen.“
Mela: „Ne, danke. Ich habe schon alle Bände für insgesamt 35 € gefunden.“
ChatGPT: „😲 Holy bibliophile bargain, Batman!“

little fella knows nothing about mastodon #CatsOfMastodon

This is of course very bad, but I also found it funny. AI evangelists are suddenly privacy-aware and repeating this as a security risk. And it is. But the idea that using ChatGPT itself hasn’t always been a security risk is ridiculous to me.

TLDR: If you’ve ever used the share function on a ChatGPT chat, that full chat can be found via Google, viewable for anyone in the world.

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It's interesting how much Wikipedia's list of LLM catchphrases comes straight out of academic writing jargon.
Probably as a lot of the corpus that was mined for the LLM training goes back to the academic literature thanks to Sci-Hub et al.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases#Language_and_tone

Study Mode: OpenAI führt Lernmodus für ChatGPT ein
Lernen mit ChatGPT wird künftig noch leichter. Der Study Mode erklärt Schritt für Schritt das gefragte Ergebnis.
https://www.heise.de/new…

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/chatgpt-users-shocked-to-learn-their-chats-were-in-google-search-results/

Source: OpenAI's monthly revenue grew ~2x in the first seven months of 2025, hitting $12B in annualized revenue; the company's 2025 revenue projection is $12.7B (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Hits $12 Billion in Annualized Revenue, Breaks 700 Million ChatGPT Weekly Active Users
OpenAI roughly doubled its revenue in the first seven months of the year, reaching $12 billion in annualized revenue, according to a person who spoke to OpenAI executives. That figure implies the ChatGPT maker is generating $1 billion a month, compared to about $500 million a month at the start ...

The UK's CMA finds that Microsoft's software licensing terms harm competition in the cloud market, may open a probe into Microsoft and Amazon in 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/364036c5-524c-40ed-a9ad-cd2c969c211f