OpenAI CEO warns GPT Chat users: anything you say to the AI could be used against you.
Have you ever told Chat GPT your problems? Have you asked for diagnoses, remedies, or advice? Be more careful what you say to this artificial intelligence, as it could be used against you and violate your privacy. This was the warning issued by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company that created this tool.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, warned that chatbot conversations are not protected by the legal privilege that safeguards confidentiality between patient and therapist or client and lawyer.
People have used AI as a coach or therapist. Photo: iStock
During an interview for the podcast 'This Past Weekend', Altman, issued a key warning to the millions of users who interact daily with ChatGPT: what is said in those conversations may not be as private as many believe.
The danger of telling everything to an AI "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," the CEO stated. However, he cautioned that these interactions are not protected by confidentiality laws like those between doctor and patient or attorney and client.
"If you talk to a therapist, a lawyer, or a doctor about these issues, there's a legal privilege: there's doctor-patient confidentiality, a legal confidentiality," he explained.
The legal framework does not cover confidentiality in ChatGPT. Photo: iStock
The executive explained that, unlike professions that have a legal framework to protect sensitive information, conversations with artificial intelligence tools do not yet have that coverage. "We haven't yet resolved that when you talk to ChatGPT," he acknowledged.
Altman also noted that this loophole could have serious consequences.
Conversations not protected by law If a user is subject to legal proceedings, the relevant authorities could easily request access to chat logs and use them as evidence, as there is no legal framework protecting these AI-powered chats, which millions of people around the world use.
OpenAI CEO called for an urgent debate on how privacy laws should be applied. Photo: iStock
“If you're going to talk to ChatGPT about your most sensitive issues and then there's a lawsuit, they could require us to reveal the conversations. And I think that's a disaster ,” he stated. Altaman also expressed the need for this artificial intelligence to have the same understanding of privacy in conversations as a therapist and their professional confidentiality.
Given this situation, the CEO of OpenAI called for an urgent debate on how privacy laws should be applied in the era of artificial intelligence.
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