The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.

Shared conversations with Anthropic's Claude chatbot briefly appeared in Google search results because the pages lacked a noindex tag. Users said some chats contained crypto keys…

Thousands of Claude conversations have "leaked" on Google Search, exposing legal notes, crypto seed phrases, source code, medical discussions, and corporate documents.