Shared Claude AI Chats Were Appearing in Google Search Results

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Reddit users spotted that Claude chats shared via link were appearing in Google Search results.

Anthropic says it did not provide search engines with chat directories or sitemaps, suggesting the links may have been posted publicly by users.

Private Claude chats were not affected, and the indexed links appear to have been removed.

Some Meta AI app users appeared not to realize that conversations they shared were being posted to a public feed last summer, but in fairness to Meta, those users had ignored or misunderstood a disclaimer about how the feature worked. Claude is now facing a different kind of sharing controversy, after shared chats were found appearing in Google results.

The issue was highlighted in a post on the ClaudeAI subreddit (via ZDNet ) . The Reddit user found that searching Google for pages under the chatbots’ shared-chat address returned many conversations that users had previously chosen to share only with specific other people.