Smokey da Bear(@Smokehbear):When you click “Share” on a Claude chat (or similar AI tools like ChatGPT), it doesn’t just make a private link for one friend. It creates a public webpage that anyone can open if they have the link, search engines like Google can find and list those pages, just like normal websites. So people were able to search site:https://t.co/cbMbZpEFM8 and see lots of other people’s shared chats, including some with private or sensitive stuff (crypto keys, work secrets, personal details, etc.). If this is true, that is a massive oopsie.

2026.07.26 18:17

When you click “Share” on a Claude chat (or similar AI tools like ChatGPT), it doesn’t just make a private link for one friend. It creates a public webpage that anyone can open if they have the link, search engines like Google can find and list those pages, just like normal websites. So people were able to search site: and see lots of other people’s shared chats, including some with private or sensitive stuff (crypto keys, work secrets, personal details, etc.). If this is true, that is a massive oopsie.

Alex Prompter@alex_prompter

2026.07.26 10:36

BREAKING: A Redditor just discovered that shared Claude conversations have been showing up in public search results. The post has 4K upvotes and hundreds of comments, so this is spreading fast. Here's what actually matters for you. Every time you hit "Share" on a Claude or ChatGPT chat, that creates a public page. Not a private link. A public page that search engines can crawl like any other website. Most people who've used share links have never been told this. Some of those pages look to be dropping out of search results already, so this may be getting cleaned up on the platform side. Don't count on it. Unsharing is the only thing that actually takes the page down, and a cached copy can outlive the fix.