If you've ever used ChatGPT to look something up online, you probably assumed your conversation was private — even when the chatbot searched the web on your behalf. But a recent glitch proves that assumption might not always hold.

Earlier this month, developers began noticing something strange in their Google Search Console dashboards. Instead of short keyword-based queries, they were seeing full, human-like sentences — the kind you’d expect to type into ChatGPT, not Google. These oddly specific entries raised an eyebrow, then alarm. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time this has happened.

What followed was a deeper investigation by analytics researcher Jason Packer and consultant Slobodan Manić. They traced the activity back to ChatGPT’s web browsing mode, discovering that a subset o

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