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

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM BillK via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> A lawyer has joined in and pointed out that if you have discussed a
> personal legal problem with ChatGPT in great detail, then not only
> have you received dodgy legal advice from ChatGPT, but all your
> lengthy discussions have created discoverable evidence that could be
> submitted to the court. ChatGPT does not have any privacy privileges,
> whereas discussions with a lawyer do.
> Wow!!!

Devil's advocate: discoverable by whom?  You haven't had these
discussions with any real person; it's no more discoverable than what
you wrote in your diary.  If you never admit to having talked about it
with, specifically, ChatGPT, how would they ever know?  (As distinct
from, "This is obviously AI generated slop so you talked with some AI,
even if we don't know which one.")  You can simply delete logs of your
personal conversations with AI, and that appears to wipe any ability
of the AI service provider to check recorded logs with a specific
individual (or identity: even if you never used your name on your
account, your email address or other username might be provided to the
service provider).

It's possible that it could happen under very specific circumstances, granted.