Some people's chats with Claude AI made publicly available online
Summary
Hundreds of conversations with Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude were found online and accessible through search engines because users shared links to their chats. Anthropic said users control whether to share conversations, but the links could still appear in search results until they were removed over the weekend.Key Facts
- Claude is a popular AI chatbot made by Anthropic, similar to ChatGPT.
- Some users shared links to their Claude conversations, making them publicly accessible.
- These shared chat links were indexed by search engines like Google, Bing, Brave, and DuckDuckGo.
- The publicly available chat logs included personal information, work details, and private research.
- Anthropic stated that sharing a conversation makes it public, and search engines may archive it.
- The share function warns users that anyone with the link can see the content, but it does not mention search engine indexing explicitly.
- The issue was fixed over the weekend by removing the chat links from search engine results.
- Google said it respects website owners’ instructions on which pages to index and does not control what content is made public on the web.
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