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Some people's chats with Claude AI found publicly available online (www.bbc.com)
submitted 3 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] theherk@lemmy.world 17 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Some things made explicitly public were found in public.

[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

lol. Weird article yeah.

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.

So... people created public links, shared them to the public, and got surprised they were public?

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.

LOL. Yeah!

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I would not assume "anyone with a link" includes people who do not have the link.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 40 minutes ago (1 children)

If you post it on the Internet, everyone has it. Especially companies like Google who scrape the entire Internet.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 16 minutes ago (1 children)

Does it say they posted it on the Internet?

Google Docs has a "anyone with a link" sharing option. I would not expect setting that and texting my friend the link to result in the document contents being indexed for searches.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 0 points 12 minutes ago (2 children)

Does it need to? That's how Google works.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 5 minutes ago

I have to admit I was wrong - a shit-load of google docs are also visible on search. I wasn't aware it works this way. That's really bad. I found so many people's resumes!

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

That’s actually not how Google works. This was Anthropics screwup