Tldr, if you clicked the share button they made the chat search indexable.
But only if you shared the generated link on some crawlable page? Or did they leak a list of share links so crawlers found them? The latter seems much more serious, and I can’t tell which it was from reading a couple articles.
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?
How i can haz access?
None of mine will ever be found. I can guarantee it. I’ve never been stupid enough to have one.
What? I thought it was private! /s
