OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns: People use ChatGPT as a therapist, life coach and talk all personal stuff; and that is Huge Problem, because …

For all those who use ChatGPT for relationship advise, health advise or similar personal stuff, think again. In a recent podcast, ChatGPT maker OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had a kinda warning on the same. According to Altman, the AI industry hasn’t yet figured out how to protect users’ privacy when it comes to these more sensitive conversations. This means that there is no doctor-patient confidentiality when your doc is an AI. OpenAI CEO made these comments during an episode of Theo Von’s podcast, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von.Altman made the comments in a response to a question on legal guardrails on AI. Altman said that one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there’s no legal confidentiality for users’ conversations.

Sam Altman: People talk about the most personal sh** in their lives to ChatGPT; they forget …

“People talk about the most personal sh** in their lives to ChatGPT,” Altman said. “People use it — young people, especially, use it — as a therapist, a life coach; having these relationship problems and [asking] ‘what should I do?’ And right now, if you talk to a therapist or a lawyer or a doctor about those problems, there’s legal privilege for it. There’s doctor-patient confidentiality, there’s legal confidentiality, whatever. And we haven’t figured that out yet for when you talk to ChatGPT.”Altman went on to warn that this could create a privacy concern for users in the case of a lawsuit, reason being that OpenAI would be legally required to produce those conversations today. “I think that’s very screwed up. I think we should have the same concept of privacy for your conversations with AI that we do with a therapist or whatever — and no one had to think about that even a year ago,” Altman said.Later, Altman asked the podcast host how he uses ChatGPT. To this, Von responded that he didn’t talk to the AI chatbot much due to his own privacy concerns. To this, Altman replied: “I think it makes sense … to really want the privacy clarity before you use [ChatGPT] a lot — like the legal clarity.”