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Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results
- summarybot 2mo agoRelying on search engines to "follow the rules" is the wrong approach.
- Ukv 2mo agoPrivate as in chats for which the user generated a share link and posted it somewhere online that a search engine's web crawler found, as far as I can tell.
- johntash 2mo agoyeah, it seems confusing that people expected public share links to.. not be public?
- autoexec 2mo agoGoogle is a lot more public than it should be, but there's nothing private about chats with Claude or any other chatbot that isn't running locally. It's funny that last year Anthropic tried to say that robots.txt was enough to protect people's data when they themselves have been accused of ignoring it whenever they want to scrape websites. https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-anthropic-ai-ignore-rule-scraping-web-contect-robotstxt?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-anthropic-ai-ignore-r...
- mock-possum 2mo agoUgh >_< Clickbait / misleading title - these aren’t private chats: > says an Anthropic spokesperson, “These shareable links are not guessable or discoverable unless people choose to share them themselves. When someone shares a conversation, they are making that content publicly accessible, and like other public web content, it may be archived by third-party services.” These are publicly shared convos, turning up in search engine results - just like every other publicly available content the search engine had crawled/indexed. This is the system working as intended / expected
- zzleeper 2mo agoDoes Chrome use URLs you click on to help its indexer? EG if someone sends you a link to www.example.com/mysecretpage and somehow it appears in Google later. That might be a case where what you expect is private is leaked by the browser
- mcfdoesdev 2mo agoI thought this happened awhile ago?