What's this about?
Wired reported that some shared Claude conversations ended up indexed by Google and Bing, showing up in ordinary search results — the latest in a series of chatbot "share link" leaks that have hit multiple AI vendors.
What exactly is the "share link" problem?
Most chatbots let you create a public link to a conversation to send to a friend. The catch: "public link" often means genuinely public — search engines can crawl and index it, so a chat you thought was semi-private becomes findable by anyone searching the right words. Users routinely underestimate this, and it has now happened across ChatGPT, Claude, and others.
Why is this worth noting?
It's a recurring privacy footgun in AI products, and a reminder that "shareable" and "private" are not the same setting. Expect vendors to keep tightening defaults on share-link indexing.