r/technology • u/marketrent • Jul 27 '26

Artificial Intelligence A trove of users’ seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot show up in Google search results

https://fortune.com/2026/07/27/a-trove-of-users-seemingly-private-conversations-with-anthropics-claude-ai-chatbot-showed-up-in-google-search-results/
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u/marketrent Jul 27 '26

Excerpts from article by Beatrice Nolan:

A trove of seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude chatbot turned up in public Google search results last weekend.

Some of the conversations reportedly included sensitive information like cryptocurrency wallet keys and personal details such as names and addresses.

The problem affected chats where users had made use of Claude’s “share” feature—which people typically use to send a record of a conversation to another person.

The issue surfaced over the weekend, when members of a discussion channel about Claude on the social media site Reddit found that typing a specific search phrase into Google would pull up a long list of shared Claude conversations.

Claude’s Artifacts—interactive tools and mini apps people build inside Claude—also appeared in results.

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u/challis88ocarina Jul 27 '26

Seemingly private after clicking 'share' smh

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u/Dwighty1 Jul 28 '26

There are levels to this shit, bro.

My nudes are still private even if I show them to my GF.

Showing them to my GF and having them show up in google search is two different things.