A Reddit user discovered that a simple Google search returned hundreds of fully readable Claude conversations from Anthropic customers.

A missing line of code meant “share with a link” and “searchable by anyone” were the same thing—and someone already saved 11,241 of those messages to GitHub.

  • rainwall@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    15 days ago

    Yes, from the article:

    ChatGPT went through this 11 months ago. OpenAI’s “Make this chat discoverable” checkbox sent thousands of conversations to Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo until OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey pulled it, calling it “a short-lived experiment to help people discover useful conversations.” Many of those chats ended up in the Internet Archive—a nonprofit that permanently stores copies of webpages—before OpenAI could clean them up, and remain accessible today.