Antrhopic Before I get to Anthropic's specific policies, let's talk about why AI rate limits exist in the first place. When you type a prompt into a chatbot, a process called inference occurs. Behind the scenes, a large language model is applying the patterns it learned in training to an input it hasn't seen before. Inference is computationally expensive and, more importantly, there's no natural ceiling in terms of cost. As an AI company, you have a love-hate relationship with your most engaged users because, without putting restrictions on them, they can cost you thousands of dollars in proce
If you've never used Claude's Share feature, this issue doesn't affect you. Likewise, chats that remained private inside your Claude account were not exposed. However, if you've shared conversations in the past — especially ones containing work documents, personal information, code or anything confidential, it's worth checking which links are still active. Even if a page no longer appears in Google Search, anyone who already has the shared URL can still access that conversation until you remove the share. You can view your shared conversations by signing in to your Claude account: Open Setting