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Some of the shareable apps, tools and visualizations that Claude users make are appearing in Google search results.
Why it matters: Most Claude users likely don't expect that the tools they're sharing with friends, coworkers or other intended recipients could be discoverable through the world's most popular search engine.
The big picture: Claude is the latest AI chatbot to raise questions about how public AI-generated content is handled by search engines, following similar scrutiny over ChatGPT conversations.
- In June 2025, users shared conversations with Meta's AI chatbots, including text conversations, audio clips and images they'd created on a public feed, seemingly by accident.
Driving the news: Over the weekend, users on Reddit and X began warning that they could easily use Google to find Claude conversations and artifacts — apps, documents, spreadsheets, web pages and other files created with Claude.
- As of Monday afternoon, Axios was still able to find publicly shared Claude artifacts indexed on Google, but not Claude conversations people had with the chatbot.
How it works: Claude conversations and artifacts are private by default, but users can choose to generate a public link to share either one with others.
- Those conversations could include sensitive and private information.
What they're saying: An Anthropic spokesperson said in a statement that the company does not "share chat directories or sitemaps with search engines like Google."
- "These shareable links are not guessable or discoverable unless people choose to share them themselves," the spokesperson said. "When someone shares a conversation, they are making that content publicly accessible, and like other public web content, it may be archived by third-party services."
- Anthropic added that these chats and artifacts are only searchable on third-party search engines after they've been shared somewhere a search engine can see — such as a discussion forum or social media.
Zoom in: Indexed Claude artifacts viewed by Axios on Monday included an apparent plan opposing the dissolution of a Miami city agency that oversees park management and another document about changes to a university's academic calendar.
- Other indexed artifacts included business plans, infrastructure diagrams explaining multi-cloud environments and planning documents describing how a clinical trial could be conducted.
- Axios could not immediately verify who created each artifact and whether the artifacts included legitimate information.
The bottom line: A feature designed for sharing can become a privacy risk when users treat a public link as a private handoff.
