AI Chat Privacy: How to Keep Your Conversations Secret

Conversations with Anthropic's Claude AI were recently accessible through advanced search queries, even if users had only shared them via active links. This meant topics discussed could be exposed to others with search skills. Anthropic has since fixed this "exploit" to disable this type of indexing. However, the privacy of AI conversations still depends partly on the user. AI companies do offer controls for managing privacy, though they may not always be easy to find. For ChatGPT, you can chat without an account to avoid tracking or saving conversations. Just log out before submitting a query. While some advanced features won't be available, this prevents specific conversations from being exposed. Alternatively, if you're signed in, you can use a temporary chat to avoid saving it to your history. This information is important for anyone using AI chatbots who wants to keep their discussions private.