Claude’s AI Chats Made Public In Google Search Results, Raising Privacy Concerns
Private conversations that users had with Claude, an AI assistant, became searchable by search engines. This happened because some shared chats were indexed in a way that made them publicly accessible. People have different views on whether this was a serious privacy problem.

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2 developments- Jul 27Only center coverage:That Claude chat you shared? Google may have seen it too
- Jul 28How to keep your Claude chats and Google files private
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