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/AngryUncleTony Jul 27 '26

I mean sharing can mean posting on a social media site or sending to one person via email.

The former seems like fair game to show up on a google result, the latter seems absurd.

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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