UPDATE: Thanks to Ars Technica’s reporting on this story, OpenAI has claimed to have fixed the leakage but that this only affected a “small number” of prompts.

Based upon what OpenAI has said and the speed of the response I think it’s most likely that the glitch was related to the layer of ChatGPT that turns search prompts into actual web searches. In other words, asking ChatGPT “Tell me an analytics company in ohio owned by Jason Packer” should turn that into a web search for “ohio analytics company jason packer” or something like that. I think that layer was not working or being skipped in some cases and the raw prompt was being searched for. It’s quite likely ChatGPT is still scraping Google, just they have fixed the bug that caused full prompts to be directly leaked. That’s an important fix, but limited.

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