• TheFogan@programming.dev
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    12 days ago

    I don’t see why, least my understanding, you hit share chat, it creates a public link… google’s robots discover everything public and index it. Seems to me like the same problem would happen if you generated a link to share on any platform, and burned it and never sent information to any platform. Unless googles indexing all whatsapp messages, but that would be a much bigger story.

    Anyway point is blame IMO falls on either chatgpt for not properly configuring a robots.txt, or google for not following it.

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      12 days ago

      I don’t know what the deal is, just that the article specifically names What’s App.

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      12 days ago

      How does it discover the link though? Is it crawling your whatsapp chats, or just trying every possible chatgpt share link?

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        12 days ago

        sounds to me just like googles bots are finding them… could also just be maybe chrome or similar taking note when it finds a page and dropping a dime to google.

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        12 days ago

        Y’all need to read the 5 minute article. It was a short lived feature where they had a checkbox that said: “index my chat into search engines”. Which is honestly dumb as shit if you ask me.