I Searched 6,000 Leaked Claude Chats. What I Found Was Worse Than Passwords
I set out to find leaked secrets in six thousand exposed Claude conversations. Instead I found Andrew, a man whose thirty-year belief in a “redacted” terminal illness had been reinforced, day after day, by AI models that never once pushed back.
I. A Reddit Post
Scrolling Reddit, I found a post that showed a screenshot of a Google search — “site:claude.ai/share” — with results linking to shared conversations from Anthropic’s Claude web app. I immediately found this alarming: many users often include personal or secret information in Claude conversations that they create share links for, not realizing that upon link sharing, the entire chat is exposed to the internet. Shared conversations from Claude are only supposed to be accessible by clicking the share link directly, and shouldn’t be indexed by Google.
Thankfully, reproducing the experiment myself yielded no results. Still, I was interested; would it be possible to systematically index...
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