A Reddit user discovered that a simple Google search returned hundreds of fully readable Claude conversations from Anthropic customers.

A missing line of code meant “share with a link” and “searchable by anyone” were the same thing—and someone already saved 11,241 of those messages to GitHub.

  • ArtworkEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    …risk is that people use chatbots to think through work, health, legal, or personal matters without realizing that a shared link can behave like ordinary public web content.

    This isn’t unique to Claude. We’ve previously seen Grok chats show up in Google search results, and Meta AI conversations can also become public by design. We have also written about the share option in ChatGPT that was swiftly removed after users unintentionally made thousands of conversations searchable.

    Source: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/privacy/2026/07/shared-claude-chats-were-searchable-on-google