Sam Altman: your conversations with ChatGPT may be used in court
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned ChatGPT users about a serious privacy threat. Conversations with artificial intelligence may be used as evidence in legal proceedings, as they are not protected by law as confidential data.
ChatGPT without protection
Altman called the lack of legal protection for conversations with ChatGPT a "huge problem" in an interview with podcast host Theo Von last week. Unlike conversations with therapists, lawyers, or doctors, which are protected by professional confidentiality, conversations with ChatGPT do not have such guarantees.
"Right now, if you talk to a therapist, lawyer, or doctor about your problems, there is legal protection for those conversations," explained the CEO of OpenAI. However, there is no such clarity and safety with conversations with ChatGPT.
Altman explicitly warned: if a user discusses "the most delicate things" with ChatGPT, and then for some reason a legal process begins, "we may be obligated to provide that information".
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