www.digitaldigging.org - Digital Digging investigation: how your AI conversation could end your career

Corporate executives, government employees, and professionals are confessing to crimes, exposing trade secrets, and documenting career-ending admissions in ChatGPT conversations visible to anyone on the internet.

A Digital Digging investigation analyzed 512 publicly shared ChatGPT conversations using targeted keyword searches, uncovering a trove of self-incrimination and leaked confidential data. The shared chats include apparent insider trading schemes, detailed corporate financials, fraud admissions, and evidence of regulatory violations—all preserved as permanently searchable public records.

Among the discoveries is a conversation where a CEO revealed this to ChatGPT:

Confidential Financial Data: About an upcoming settlement

Non-Public Revenue Projections: Specific forecasts showing revenue doubling

Merger intelligence: Detailed valuations

NDA-Protected Partnerships: Information about Asian customers

The person also revealed internal conflict and criticizing executives by name.

Our method reveals an ironic truth: AI itself can expose these vulnerabilities. After discussing the dangers of making chats public, we asked Claude, another AI chatbot, to suggest Google search formulas that might uncover sensitive ChatGPT conversations.