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Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results

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Re: Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results

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Post by autoexec »

Google 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-r...

Re: Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results

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Post by johntash »

Ukv wrote: post #3

Private 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.

yeah, it seems confusing that people expected public share links to.. not be public?

Re: Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results

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Post by mock-possum »

Ugh >_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

Re: Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results

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Post by zzleeper »

mock-possum wrote: post #6

Ugh >_ 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 se…

Does 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

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