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Some people's chats with Claude AI found publicly available online (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 15 hours ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Lojcs@piefed.social 19 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Tldr, if you clicked the share button they made the chat search indexable.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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?

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago

2 is not something I would expect. If you don't want it on the Internet, don't post it.