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Some people's chats with Claude AI found publicly available online
BBC • • general
Key Points:
- Hundreds of user conversations with Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude were found to be publicly accessible via Google and other search engines due to shared links being indexed.
- These chat logs included personal, work-related, and proprietary information, and were discoverable through site-specific search terms until the issue was addressed over the weekend.
- Anthropic stated that users control whether conversations are shared, but the share feature does not explicitly warn that links may appear in search engine results.
- Similar incidents have occurred previously with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Elon Musk's Grok chatbot, prompting changes in how chat logs are managed and accessed.
- Google clarified that it does not control public content indexing but provides tools for site owners like Anthropic to block pages from search results, which Anthropic likely used to remove the chat logs.
