Personal chats between users and the Claude chatbot from Anthropic…
Personal chats between users and the Claude chatbot from Anthropic were discovered in Google search results. The search engine has indexed links to chats that people shared via the Share Chat feature.
Consensus
- Google indexed links to conversations with the AI chatbot Claude due to the 'Share Chat' feature.
- The indexed content became accessible in Google's search results after being shared publicly.
- Users were warned when creating public links that anyone with the link could view the conversation.
- Anthropic stated that only publicly shared chats are subject to indexing, not those sent privately.
- The issue was reported by BBC and observed by users on Reddit.
- Some conversations included requests for help with resume writing, medication trackers, tax documents, and fictional transformations like becoming a nine-tailed fox.
- By Monday evening, the indexing of Claude chats had stopped in Google.
Points of divergence
- The indexing issue also affected conversations with the Chinese AI model DeepSeek, which were indexed by Google on the previous week. — novaya_eu
- Google disabled the log search function over the weekend, but many links remained publicly accessible. — tvrain
Coverage (4 sources)
- Personal user chats from Claude found in Google — Дождь
- Personal chat logs between users and the Claude AI bot found in Google search results — Дождь (Telegram)
- Part of user chats with the Claude AI appeared in Google search results — Новая газета Европа
- Personal chat logs between users and Anthropic's Claude AI bot discovered in Google search results — The Insider