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Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Claude AI Reveals User Conversations [Brave New World]

 BBC


Claude is a dirty little snitch 

This news item on BBC Online shows how easy it can be to share your 'private' information with the entire world, if you click on the wrong link, or forget to click on the correct link. The safeguards are, quite obviously, not sufficient. 

Beyond this incident, you are left wondering to what extent any data exchanged with an AI chatbot can remain private. No matter what the service providers claim, I would expect all the data to be stored on various servers, even if they do nothing with it. 

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Hundreds of user conversations with Anthropic's popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Claude were found to have been available to essentially anyone online.
Links to the chats, some of which included personal and work information, would show up if a user of a search engine like Google used a site-specific search term.
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. [...] 

In one conversation from April, a user prompted Claude to draft an unpublished blog post about cloud security involving details of a corporate project. In another from last month, a user asked Claude how to "become Nine-tailed fox?", before clarifying they wanted to literally transform from human to the creature. [...] 


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