A Whole Bunch of People’s Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There’s Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
▻https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-chats-publicly-accessible
#Anthropic said the system is working as intended.
A trove of chat logs and projects created with Anthropic’s #Claude — some including sensitive personal and company information — have been left exposed to Google, making them them searchable to anyone on the web.
Many of the materials appear to have been made public when Claude users opted to distribute a given chat or project to colleagues or associates using the chatbot’s “share” feature. After hitting the “share” button in the top right corner, Claude notes that sharing will create a “public” link, which “anyone with the link can view.” The warning, though, doesn’t alert users that shared content could wind up being indexed by a search engine — meaning that a user could effectively be sharing their Claude-generated document with the entire internet.
Other materials were shared in the form of Claude #Artifacts, a feature that allows users to save certain projects as standalone apps or tools. That platform does warn users that publishing an Artifact “will make it accessible to anyone on the internet and potentially visible in search engine results.”
Some of the materials exposed to the web and indexed by #Google, such as #personal_websites and some #vibe-coded_apps, appear to have been created for public consumption. But much of the discoverable content seems as though it was only intended to be shared internally at a company, or between a small handful of people.
