A Whole Bunch of People’s Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There’s Some Wildly Private Stuff in There

Claude chats and Artifacts shared through Anthropic’s public-link features were found indexed by Google, exposing sensitive medical and corporate information.

Anthropic said the links were intentionally public, but some users appear to have expected the content to stay limited to intended recipients.

The incident highlights how AI chat sharing tools can be indexed by search engines and create privacy and security risks.