A number of those shared pages became discoverable through search engines, raising concerns among users after examples circulated online. Forbes reported in 2025 that publicly shared Claude conversations could also appear in search results under certain circumstances. At the time, Anthropic said it relied on robots.txt instructions to discourage search engines from indexing shared chats. WIRED noted that Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI all restrict competitors' AI crawlers from accessing chatbot pages through robots.txt directives. Users who have created shared Claude links can review or remove them through Claude's privacy settings, where shared conversations can be managed or deleted.