You worked something out in a chat: the trip itinerary, the budget, the questions for the contractor. Now your partner or your sister needs to see it, and a screenshot loses half of it. Every one of the four tools will turn that chat into a link you can send. The catch is the same everywhere: these links are public to anyone who has one, there are no per-person permissions, and what you shared is a snapshot frozen at the moment you made it. So before you hit share, reread the thread for anything you would not want forwarded.

Claude: Share and unshare a chat

Claude makes a link to the conversation, and gives you a running list of everything you have shared so you can take any of it back.

  1. Open the chat you want to send at claude.ai.
  2. Click Share in the upper right corner of the chat.
  3. Click Share again in the pop-out to create the link, then copy it.
  4. To take it back later, open the same Share menu and change the visibility dropdown from Public to Private.

When to reach for it: best when you want to hand someone the whole thread and still keep a leash on it. Everything you say after you share stays private, so if you keep working you have to share again. Files you uploaded are not included in the link, only the conversation. On Team and Enterprise plans you can only share within your own organization, not publicly. The log of what you have shared lives under Settings, then Privacy, then Shared chats.

Source: Share and unshare chats, Anthropic Help Center

ChatGPT generates a link to a snapshot of the conversation, and lets you scope it to one answer instead of the whole thing.

  1. Open the conversation at chatgpt.com, or in the iOS or Android app.
  2. Use the share button at the top right of the chat screen, or share the chat from the sidebar.
  3. On desktop, preview the snapshot you are about to send. To send just one answer, use the share option on that individual response instead.
  4. Click to copy the link. Give it a few seconds before you send it, since opening it right away can show a loading screen.

When to reach for it: good for sending one useful answer to someone who does not need the whole rambling thread. There are no granular permissions, so anyone with the link can read it and pass it on. Nobody can continue your conversation from a shared link; if they reply, they get their own copy. Deleting the original chat deletes the link too, but a copy someone already made stays in their history.

Source: ChatGPT Shared Links FAQ, OpenAI Help Center

Copilot: Share a chat or a single answer

Copilot has two share buttons, one for the whole conversation and one for a single response, and it shows you a preview of exactly what is going out.

  1. Open the conversation at copilot.com, or in the Microsoft Copilot app.
  2. For the whole thread, select the share icon at the top right of the chat page.
  3. For one answer only, select the share icon at the bottom of that response.
  4. Check the preview window that appears. It shows exactly what will be shared. Then copy the link.

When to reach for it: the preview is the reason to use this one. It is the clearest look any of the four gives you at what you are actually about to hand over. The link is a copy frozen at the moment you made it, so anything you add afterward will not show up for whoever you sent it to, and anyone with the link can open it.

Source: Conversation history in Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Support

Gemini creates a short public link, and it is the only one of the four where the other person can pick the conversation up and keep going.

  1. Open the chat at gemini.google.com.
  2. Below the response, click Share, then Share conversation.
  3. The g.co/gemini/share link copies itself. Paste it wherever you need it.
  4. To pull it back, go to Settings & help, then Your public links, then click Delete next to the one you want gone.

When to reach for it: reach for this when you want the other person to be able to keep working, not just read. That is also the risk: anyone with the link can read it, reshare it, and continue it. Deleting the link does not remove anything already posted elsewhere, and it does not undo a chat someone else continued on their own. Chats made with a Gem cannot be continued by the person you send it to, and neither can chats shared by anyone under 18.

Source: Share your chats from Gemini Apps, Gemini Apps Help

Try this

Pick a chat you finished this week that someone else would actually find useful. Share it, send the link to one person, and then delete or unshare it before the end of the day. You will learn two things worth knowing. First, how much of it makes sense to someone who was not there, which is usually less than you expect. Second, exactly where the off switch lives in the tool you use most, which is the part you want to know before the day you actually need it.

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