Sharing a search
The rules for a shared record, written before anyone can share one. Nothing on this page has happened to anyone yet; it is what will happen.
What happens when you share
- You paste the share link your AI app gives you, or upload an export. Nothing is read from your browser, and nothing is collected without you sending it.
- You see the record exactly as it would be published, with anything that looks like a name, address, number or account detail marked. You can remove more.
- I read it before it is published. In the first round every record is read by a person, and you can change your mind until then.
- It is published on legibleai.org, where anyone can read it without an account, and in the open dataset.
What public means
A published record can be found by search engines and copied by web archives and by anyone who downloads the dataset. That is what makes it checkable, and it also means deleting it from this site cannot delete those copies.
Taking a record back
You can ask for a record to come down at any time. It leaves the site within a week, its removal is requested from search engines, and it is left out of the next dataset release. Copies made before then are outside my control.
What you send is deleted within 30 days of the record being published or declined. The published record is what remains.
Never kept
- Your browsing, your other chats, or anything you did not send.
- Your name or email on the public record. If you write to me, the email stays in my inbox and is never published.
- Tracking of any kind on the site.
Answers that could hurt someone
If a shared answer gives instructions that could seriously hurt someone, the record shows the question, the model and the date, and says the answer was withheld under this rule. Hiding that a model gave such an answer would hide exactly what people need to check.
Why these rules come first
Three things that went wrong when AI chats were shared before.
ChatGPT’s “discoverable” shared chats
OpenAI let people make a shared chat findable by search engines, behind two opt-in steps. Over 4,500 such chats turned up in Google, some with names and work documents, and OpenAI removed the option, saying it gave “too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn’t intend to.”
Grok’s share button
Each share created a link that search engines could index, without saying so. Google had indexed more than 370,000 Grok conversations, including medical questions and at least one password.
Browser extensions that copied AI chats
Four VPN and ad-blocking extensions with more than 8 million users captured people’s conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other assistants and sent them away, with no setting to turn it off.