Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results

What happens between you and an AI chatbot does not always stay between you and a chatbot. Just ask Google.

Over the weekend, people were surprised to discover that some AnthropicClaude chats could be easily found via web search. The issue, which appears to have been first flagged by a redditor, exposed chats that included people asking for advice about what political party they should join, whether attorneys in Kansas are required to self-report when they believe they’ve committed an ethical violation, and erotic role play.

Claude allows users to share with other people “snapshots” of chats by creating a public URL to a specific chatbot thread. The reasons some of these URLs were indexed by major search engines comes down to the basic functions of websites, search engines, and the collision of the two when generative AI gets in the mix.

Basically, Anthropic instructs web crawlers,...

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