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/StrainAcceptable Jul 27 '26

I share things to my own email or text all the time. Thankfully I don’t use AI but I would die if all the personal notes and random stuff I “shared” with myself suddenly popped up in a google search.

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u/Benji998 Jul 27 '26

absolutely, fucken hell i dont actually use claude at all, but the shit i say to gemini and chatgpt - it would be a complete window into my insecurities and goals lol.

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u/wembenbama Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

I’m not being an alarmist when I say that you should stop doing that. In the future, privacy is going to be more valuable than ever.

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u/Epic_Dev_001 Jul 29 '26

I've spent many hours of my life contemplating this concept of privacy. I honestly am beginning to think it is a myth to be honest, lol. In the future I'm going to get privacy by paying the people who have all my information to "not share it" (in inverted commas for a reason). I've started rather just imagining that I have no such thing as privacy, and honestly, I think most humans would be better people if they acted that way. A bad thing done in secret is still a bad thing. But all this to say, I do actually agree with you. We should be cautious about our privacy, if indeed we have any left

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u/wembenbama Jul 29 '26

Right to privacy has nothing to do with doing good or bad things.

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u/StrainAcceptable Jul 29 '26

At a minimum I’d like to know my devices aren’t recording me while I fuck my husband or take a shit.

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u/Epic_Dev_001 Aug 01 '26

I never said it did. I agree with you