Comment on How did Google discover public links of Claude chats?
khanas1f@lemmy.world 3 days agoAnthropic blocked the scraping quickly when this came to light but does google still has the URLs that it has already scraped?
I understand that new shared chats won’t show up but what about the old ones.
SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Yes, Anthropic presumably submitted a request to block search results that lead to Claude chats, as well as to remove the ones that were already there. Google’s removal tool can remove results that had been indexed, and the “noindex” meta tag prevents future indexing, if I’m understanding correctly.
support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9689846?hl=e…
My guess would be yes. I doubt the removal tool actually deletes content, more likely it just deactivates it. It could theoretically be reactived or used for something else, possibly even inbreeding (AI chat logs to train AI on) or selling data to whoever pays for it. But that is just a guess, I could be wrong. I don’t have much optimism when it comes to corporations, they tend to be as evil as they can get away with. If they legally acquired the content from those links because Anthropic neglected to protect them, there may not be many limits to what Google can do with those chat logs.
KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Why would AI companies respect noindex files if they dont even care about copyright?
SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Yeah, they probably don’t. But public search engines typically do.
It is very, very difficult to keep anything private these days.