Some people’s conversations with Claude AI are publicly available online.

Hundreds of user conversations with Anthropic’s popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot cloud are available to basically anyone using Google or other web browsers.

Links to the chats, some of which contain personal and work information, are displayed by a search engine such as Google if a user uses a site-specific search term.

The searches revealed cloud chats saved by search engines like Google that the user had decided to “share”.

The chat logs were searchable over the weekend, but many were saved and widely shared online.

Anthropic Spokesman Cloud lets users control when and if they share their conversations with the chatbot.

Unless people choose to share them themselves, links to conversations are unpredictable or untraceable, she said.

The spokesperson added: “When someone shares a chat, they are making their content publicly available, and like any other public web content, it can be hosted by third-party services.”

The sharing option in the cloud tells the user that “anyone with the link” can see the contents of that link, but it doesn’t clearly state that the link ends up in Google and search results.

Users on Reddit Found in the beginning, External More than 200 conversations with Claude are covered in at least 25 pages of publicly available conversations – some of which took place weeks ago.

In the conversations, users asked the chatbot to respond to various topics.

Chat logs show a user asked Cloud last year, “Do you want to help me or help me more?” The chatbot replied in part, “I’ve had a similar experience that I’d like to help you with.”

In a thread from April, a user prompted Cloud to create an unpublished blog post about cloud security that included details of an enterprise project. Another user last month asked Claude “how to become a fox with nine tails”, before explaining that they wanted to literally transform from a human to a creature.

Cloud first announced to the user, “Fully functional fox powers!” It tried to show an AI-generated image claiming to be given to them.

Other conversations with Claude include users seeking help with their profiles, including their name, address information and work history. Some users have conducted what appears to be proprietary research for their work, including transcripts of private conversations, such as health care.

Last year, OpenAI faced a similar problem with ChatGPT chat logs It is being made publicly available., ExternalThe company finally It has changed, External Ease of access to such records.

Elon Musk-owned social platform AI chatbot Grok in X was also featured last year. Hundreds of thousands of chat logs It is publicly available though an online search.

A Google spokesperson clarified to the BBC that the company does not control “what pages are published on websites”, but rather that action comes from websites.

“We provide site owners with clear controls to determine whether their pages can be crawled or indexed, and we always adhere to those guidelines.”

Since search indexing of chat logs is not happening now, it can be a tool used by Anthroponic to quickly ban chat logs from search results. Google process for website owner Block link, External It’s straightforward, but it should start with the website owner.

Other search engines, such as Bing, Brave and Duck Duck Go, where Cloud Chat logs were viewed, were offered for comment.