Shared Claude chats were made readily available for anyone who knew where to look.

The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.

As privacy and data concerns surrounding AI continue to grow, Anthropic’s Claude AI has found itself in the hot seat after private conversations users had shared became accessible through search engines like Google and Bing.

Reports of problems are dropping sharply as service is restored.

Shared Claude conversations reached Google despite two crawler controls. Labs audit what their models say. Almost nobody audits what their products publish.

The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.

Revelation comes after OpenAI revealed that experimental models had broken out of their restrictions and hacked fellow AI companies

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