Sam Altman, CEO of the American company OpenAI, stated last week that the conversations users have with the ChatGPT chatbot are not as private as one would expect and do not have the necessary legal protection.
<<People talk about the most personal things in their lives with ChatGPT (...). They use it as if it were a therapist or a life coach (...). And right now, if you talk to a therapist, a lawyer, or a doctor about those issues, there is legal privilege: there is doctor-patient confidentiality, legal confidentiality. But we have not yet resolved that for when you talk to ChatGPT>>,” Altman said in an interview for the podcast This Past Weekend.
In addition, he detailed that this lack of protection could have serious repercussions in legal situations, as conversations could be required by a court and used against the user.
<<<If you are going to talk to ChatGPT about your most sensitive issues and then there is a lawsuit, they could demand that we reveal the conversations. And I think that is a disaster. We should have the same concept of privacy for conversations with artificial intelligence that we have with a therapist,” he insisted.
In this sense, Altman advocated for a debate on how the laws around this issue will be interpreted. <<I think we need to address this issue with some urgency,” he urged. less
