@lonespelunker@mastodon.social
2026-07-28 12:45 UTC
So Claude apparently creates a “secret” URL for the conversations people have with it.
URLs can be indexed if they can be reached. So users’ private conversations with Claude, predictably, started showing up in Google search results.
“But but but we had a robots.txt file!” says Anthropic, unironically.
https://www.wired.com/story/private-claude-chats-exposed-in-google-and-bing-search-results/
#noai #ai #consent #badideas
Replies (6)
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@RustedComputing@discuss.systems 2026-07-28 18:52
@lonespelunker@mastodon.social You have some floof on the end of the URL tha breaks it.
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@rageblanche@s.basspistol.org 2026-07-28 23:05
@lonespelunker@mastodon.social
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@ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog 2026-07-29 10:51
@lonespelunker@mastodon.social it's been less than a year since people reported on the exact same issue in ChatGPT: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/31/your-public-chatgpt-queries-are-getting-indexed-by-google-and-other-search-engines/ They just don't learn 🤨
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@oliverknabe@berlin.social 2026-07-29 11:52
@lonespelunker@mastodon.social the article archived: https://archive.ph/uA4bN
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@PVTejas@mstdn.social 2026-07-29 14:19
@lonespelunker@mastodon.social the irony of an ai company saying "they didn't respect robots.txt"
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@sequundi@social.tchncs.de 2026-07-30 06:59
@lonespelunker@mastodon.social "Please accept all cookies" - "Lol, you have to pay anyway"