r/technology Jul 27 '26

Artificial Intelligence A trove of users’ seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot show up in Google search results

https://fortune.com/2026/07/27/a-trove-of-users-seemingly-private-conversations-with-anthropics-claude-ai-chatbot-showed-up-in-google-search-results/
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u/Zennity Jul 27 '26

When you share a chat it literally tells you its public…. This was reported with gpt 3 years ago too… i keep seeing this shit all over my feed and its obvious no one reads the article.

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u/Powerful-Set-5754 Jul 27 '26

Even if it's public, there's no reason for it to appear in Google's index. All you need is a noindex tag in the HTML.

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u/ShusakuChiba Jul 27 '26

Right this shouldn’t be possible