The share option within Claude tells a user that “anyone with the link” may view the contents of that link, but does not explicitly state that the link may end up in Google and search results.
It seems like people clicked the “make chat public” button and then shared the link with someone who eventually posted it on a page that got crawled?
Maybe there’s two mistakes here: 1: the user made the chat public and 2: Maybe Anthropic didn’t have their robots.txt file set correctly?
I mean, it seems like the big mistake here is from the users… they clicked the “make this chat public”… unless I’m missing something?
Maybe there’s two mistakes here: 1: the user made the chat public and 2: Maybe Anthropic didn’t have their robots.txt file set correctly?
Basically yes to #2, which was a big mistake on Anthropic’s part, but #1 is still unclear about how Google could have ended up there. Putting the chats on a Google-indexed page would make the most sense (and mostly absolve Google from responsibility), but who would be doing that and where?
Tinfoil hat: I wonder if Google was crawling through emails and also made a mistake of their own.
It seems like people clicked the “make chat public” button and then shared the link with someone who eventually posted it on a page that got crawled?
Maybe there’s two mistakes here: 1: the user made the chat public and 2: Maybe Anthropic didn’t have their robots.txt file set correctly?
I mean, it seems like the big mistake here is from the users… they clicked the “make this chat public”… unless I’m missing something?
Basically yes to #2, which was a big mistake on Anthropic’s part, but #1 is still unclear about how Google could have ended up there. Putting the chats on a Google-indexed page would make the most sense (and mostly absolve Google from responsibility), but who would be doing that and where?
Tinfoil hat: I wonder if Google was crawling through emails and also made a mistake of their own.
2 is not something I would expect. If you don’t want it on the Internet, don’t post it.