Your 2 A.M. Confessions Sit in Someone Else's Inventory

Over one weekend in July, a stranger could have read the message you sent to Claude at 2 a.m. asking whether it's normal to still feel sad about your ex from 2019.Only if you pressed share. But if you pressed share, you typed into a box shaped like a diary and published the results on a billboard.WIRED reported in late July that Claude conversations users had shared through public links were surfacing in Google and Bing results, a plumbing failure in how Anthropic handled those links and the crawlers reading them. Chats stay private by default, and unshared ones never left the account. What surfaced were the conversations people believed they had handed to one person. A polite way to say it: the internet keeps whatever you hand it, especially the parts you meant as a whisper.I keep circling the word "whisper," because Microsoft's security researchers named an attack after it back in November. Whisper Leak flags whether your encrypted AI chat is on a topic someone trained a classifier…