Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI: “If you talk to a lawyer, a psychologist, or a doctor about your problems, there is confidentiality and professional secrecy, but with ChatGPT, we still haven't found a way”✨

This was revealed by OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, in his latest conversation on the podcast This Past Weekend with Theo Von. The businessman claims that internet users' conversations with ChatGPT are not as private as they believe.

”People share their most personal problems with ChatGPT. Young people especially use it as therapy, and right now if you talk to a psychologist, a lawyer, or a doctor about your problems, there is legal privilege, there is doctor-patient confidentiality, but we still haven't found a way for ChatGPT,” Altman indicates.

In this way, all the data that a user provides to ChatGPT could be used against them if the law requires it:

“If there is a lawsuit, we could be forced to present the data, and I think that is a huge mistake,” Altman assures.

From the perspective of OpenAI's CEO, users should have the same concept of privacy for their conversations with AI as they do with a therapist.

“Now, the big problem is how we are going to address the laws regarding this,” the businessman concludes, referencing an uncertain future for this legal area.