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The problem affected chats where users had made use of Claude\u2019s \u201cshare\u201d feature\u2014which people typically use to send a record of a conversation to another person. <\/p>\n

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The issue surfaced over the weekend, when members of a discussion channel about Claude on the social media site Reddit found that typing a specific search phrase into Google would pull up a long list of shared Claude conversations. Claude\u2019s Artifacts\u2014interactive tools and mini apps people build inside Claude\u2014also appeared in results.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The topics of the seemingly inadvertently exposed chats ranged from erotica, programming chats, work notes, and fake book reviews. One chat\u2014which was labeled as \u201cshared by Anthropic\u201d\u2014showed Claude generating explicit content, which goes against Anthropic\u2019s policy on erotica.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>We give people control over sharing their Claude conversations publicly, and in keeping with our privacy principles, we do not share chat directories or sitemaps with search engines like Google,\u201d an Anthropic spokesperson told Fortune. <\/em>\u201cThese shareable links are not guessable or discoverable unless people choose to share them themselves. When someone shares a conversation, they are making that content publicly accessible, and like other public web content, it may be archived by third-party services.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company does appear to have fixed the issue, as the links are no longer available via Google through the technique shared on Reddit. Still, at the time of writing, many of the previously exposed chat links remained live and reachable to those already with the link.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Claude conversations are private by default\u2014the only chats affected were those that users had \u201cshared\u201d with someone else. Claude\u2019s share button works the way most competitors\u2019 do: when users select it, Claude creates a snapshot of your conversation at its own web address, meant to be sent to one person or a small group with that link.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The links do not give anyone access to a user\u2019s full account or all chats that a user has engaged in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time Claude chats have found their way into public Google searches. According to Forbes<\/em>, the same type of problem affected the company last year, and a nearly identical issue exposed almost 100,000 ChatGPT conversations on Google. Elon Musk\u2019s Grok chatbot has also been affected by the same problem in the past.<\/p>\n

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This is because the \u201cshare\u201d feature on AI chatbots creates a unique URL for the conversation, and these links were automatically published and left open to search engines, often without users\u2019 knowledge.<\/p>\n

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As users increasingly share sensitive information with chatbots, incidents like these risk exposing massive amounts of private data and information. Shared chats are typically more sensitive than things like a shared document, as people treat chatbots as a place to think out loud about work, health, and legal problems in a way they wouldn\u2019t necessarily want made public. The fact that OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI have each stumbled into versions of the same mistake also suggests its problem the industry has struggled to permanently fix.<\/p>\n

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