Some people's chats with Claude AI found to be publicly available online
Here's what's trending across India right now:
Links to the chats, some of which included personal and work information, would show up if a user of a search engine like Google used a site-specific search term.
Adding to this, The searches showed Claude chats for which a user had decided to "share" a link had been saved by search engines like Google, leaving them accessible to the broader public.
Meanwhile, The search availability of the chat logs was removed over the weekend, but many were saved and shared widely online.
Notably, A spokeswoman for Anthropic shared that Claude users maintained control over if and when to share conversations they had with the chatbot.
As per the latest buzz, She shared links to conversations were "not guessable or discoverable unless people choose to share them themselves".
In further updates, "When someone shares a conversation, they are making that content publicly accessible, and like other public web content, it may be archived by third-party services," the spokeswoman added.
On top of that, 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.
Users on Reddit initially discovered the publicly available chats, which covered more than 200 conversations with Claude across at least 25 pages of search results - some taking place just weeks ago.
Source: BBC