[ExI] Altman - why using ChatGPT as your therapist is a privacy nightmare

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‘We haven’t figured that out yet’: Sam Altman explains why using
ChatGPT as your therapist is still a privacy nightmare
You should stick to trained humans
By Alex Blake published 28 July 2025

<https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/chatgpt/we-havent-figured-that-out-yet-sam-altman-explains-why-using-chatgpt-as-your-therapist-is-still-a-privacy-nightmare>
Quotes:
OpenAI’s CEO says using ChatGPT for therapy has serious privacy risks.
Your private chats might be exposed if OpenAI were to face a lawsuit.
Feeding your private thoughts into an opaque AI is also a risky move.

There is also the issue of feeding your deeply personal worries and
concerns into an opaque algorithm like ChatGPT’s, with the possibility
that it might be used to train OpenAI’s algorithm and leak its way
back out when other users ask similar questions.

Of course, there’s also the question of whether an AI like ChatGPT can
replace a therapist in the first place.
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That still won't stop worried people who can't afford a therapist from
talking to ChatGPT. ChatGPT is just so friendly and seemingly helpful
that it feels like advice from your best friend.

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