Claude allows people to ‘share’ their chats (Picture: Reuters)

The user was desperate to know: Are birds ‘secretly professional rappers who co-wrote most of Jay Z’s albums’?

‘I could try to find the bird and interview it,’ they explained,‘but I think that might be hard because it’s clearly a celebrity.’

Another wondered how they could ‘truly’ transform into a nine-tailed fox,a spirit in ancient Japanese mythology. A third wanted to be called ‘crude’ things which we can’t really publish here.

The above were just three of the hundreds of conversations between real people and the AI chatbot Claude that could be discovered on Google.

Reddit users unearthed the raft of chats on Saturday by using a site-specific term on search engines that limits what results pop up.

Some 755 messages could be searched online across dozens of search results pages,according to a repository on the coding platform GitHub.

The chats came up when using a site-specific search term which no longer works (Picture: Reddit)

The chat logs Metro saw were eye-opening,to say the least. One conversation involved Claude fact-checking someone who thought that climate change,caused by humans burning fossil fuels,does not exist.

A user asked Claude to help them invent a new word – they landed on ‘transtill’ – while another asked to play cards with the bot (Claude won).

In a nearly 20,000-word-long chat,a person asked Claude if it is ‘situationally aware’,later telling the algorithm that they ‘feel bad’ for it.

As of Tuesday evening,a test search by Metro on Google,Yahoo,Bing,DuckDuckGo and Brave returned no results with the trick.

Does this mean all Claude chats are public?

No,neither are private conversations being leaked or hacked.

Instead,Claude lets users ‘share’ some parts of all of a conversation,which gives them a unique URL.

‘Once a chat has been shared,anyone with the link can view the chat snapshot,’ Claude says.

‘The chat snapshot includes all messages that were sent prior to sharing the chat,including any artifacts.’

Users are told not to share chats that contain ‘personal information’ (Picture: Claude AI/Antrhopic)

A box at the top of every conversation will say that it is a ‘copy of a chat between Claude’ and the first name of the user.

Claude users can go to Settings > Privacy > Shared chats to keep their conversations private.

Anthropic,the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot,told Metro that shareable links to chats are ‘not guessable or discoverable’.

‘We give people control over sharing their Claude conversations publicly,and in keeping with our privacy principles,we do not share chat directories or sitemaps with search engines like Google,’ the company added.

If users post these links on a forum or social media platform,however,Google’s web crawlers,which index websites,may have caught them.

A link sent privately to someone stays out of search.

Many AI start-ups have struggled with shareable links (Picture: Getty Images)

Inside each chat log’s code is a tiny message that tells search engines to leave them alone,called a robots.txt file.

But as Google’s developer guide,says,this file isn’t a sure-fire way to keep a web page buried; instead,it recommends sites try ‘noindex’.

When Metro peeked inside some of the previously Google-able Claude chat logs,they did not contain this tag.

Google said: ‘Neither Google nor any other search engine controls what pages are made public on the web,and these pages were indexed across many search engines.

‘We give site owners clear controls to decide whether pages can be crawled or indexed,and we always respect those directives.’

An almost identical issue with ChatGPT happened last year,when 4,500 ‘shared’ ChatGPT chat logs were found to be accessible if Googled.

Owner OpenAI tightened its data control policies in response,so search engines could not pick up the shareable links as easily.

Grok,Elon Musk’s AI chatbot within the social media platform X,also saw some 300,000 chat logs viewable with a quick Google search.

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