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PSA: Your Claude Shared Chats and Artifacts May Have Ended Up on Google
The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.
TL;DR
- An unknown number of Claude chats and Artifacts were publicly searchable on Google via "site:claude.ai/share" searches.
- Exposed content reportedly included health records, private company documents, and children's personal information.
- The issue stemmed from Claude's "share chat" feature, intended for limited sharing but inadvertently making content public.
- Anthropic initially suggested users were responsible if links were posted where search engines could find them.
- A company spokesperson stated that shareable links are not guessable unless intentionally shared and that public web content may be archived.
- The exposure was flagged by Reddit users and reported by 404 Media; as of Monday afternoon, tests indicated the issue was fixed.
- Previously exposed chats contained detailed medical reports, clinical trial results, internal company documents, and employee reviews.
- One chat labeled "shared by Anthropic" reportedly showed Claude producing erotica, which violates Anthropic's usage policy.
- Google stated that search engines do not control what pages are made public and respect site owners' crawl/indexing directives.
- This mirrors a similar incident last year where hundreds of Claude chats were indexed by search engines.