UPDATE, ITS WORSE THAN THE CHATS
the same thing is happening with shared artifacts. every app, doc, dashboard and tool people published from claude is also sitting indexed and searchable
people have already pulled up internal company dashboards, full project plans with client details, and someones entire clinical trial summary with real medical data in it
but think about what people actually build in artifacts:
> financial models, cap tables, revenue spreadsheets
> payroll and salary breakdowns with employee names attached
> customer lists and crm exports
> internal wikis, roadmaps and unreleased product plans
> legal docs, contracts and agreements being drafted
> personal health and medication trackers
> tax documents and bank statement breakdowns
> and every dashboard someone pasted an api key or env variable into to get it working
when you publish an artifact your only two options are "only me" or "anyone with the link"
nobody reading that thinks it means "and google will list it publicly." its the same as an unlisted youtube video showing up in search results
and its already past the point of just being google. third party sites have started scraping and organizing these into browsable collections, so deleting it from search doesnt mean its gone
if you have ever published an artifact, go check your published artifacts and unpublish anything you dont want public
link and not indexed were always two different promises. people only ever agreed to the first one