Many people assume that an AI “Share” link is effectively private unless they send it to someone. That’s not how the web works. Recently, users discovered that searches like site:claude.ai/share and site:claude.ai/public/artifacts returned publicly shared Claude conversations through search engines. Some indexed pages reportedly contained resumes, company discussions, code, and other sensitive information. Google began removing many results, but the incident highlights an important privacy lesson: once a conversation is published as a public webpage, it can become discoverable
Shareable links are not automatically indexed by search engines. That can only happen if people share them on another place that is indexable. Anthropic should have put more guard rails in place but this was definitely people sharing links
Makes sense. However, I have no idea why you would share an AI chat on a public space…
though anthropic could add
/public/artifacts/*to https://claude.ai/robots.txt to prevent any discovered URLs from being included in search results; or the <meta> tag like the article suggests
