Emma Roth

The conversations stemmed from a now-defunct feature that let ChatGPT users make their conversations discoverable on search engines. Some of the conversations uncovered by the researcher involved an upload of a supposed non-disclosure agreement for visitors to OpenAI’s headquarters, and the owner of a named business asking ChatGPT for help writing a contract, as reported by 404 Media.

That’s according to Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, who highlighted the “mix” of 70 million weekly users browsing Reddit directly, or landing on the platform through Google searches, as reported earlier by SEO Roundtable. Huffman noted that “external search will continue to be a big driver of new users” even as AI-generated answers pose a threat to the site’s traffic.