Private Claude Conversations Have Been Indexed by Search Engines

Shared Claude chats were made readily available for anyone who knew where to look.

Thousands of conversations between Claude and its users, alongside tools created during those chats, were available for a period of time through Google searches earlier this month—echoing a similar issue that blighted OpenAI’s ChatGPT and was first reported by Fast Company almost a year ago to the day. Among the conver

The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.

Shared Claude chats were publicly accessible through Google Search.

The topics of the seemingly inadvertently exposed chats ranged from erotica, programming chats, work notes, and fake book reviews.