{"id":32874,"date":"2025-07-30T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32874\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:44:09","slug":"openai-ceo-sam-altman-warns-people-use-chatgpt-as-a-therapist-life-coach-and-talk-all-personal-stuff-and-that-is-huge-problem-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32874\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns: People use ChatGPT as a therapist, life coach and talk all personal stuff; and that is Huge Problem, because &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753893849_762_Sam-Altman.jpg\" alt=\"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns: People use ChatGPT as a therapist, life coach and talk all personal stuff; and that is Huge Problem, because ...\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> 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\u2019t yet figured out how to protect users&#8217; 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\u2019s 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\u2019s no legal confidentiality for users\u2019 conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Altman: People talk about the most personal sh** in their lives to ChatGPT; they forget &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople talk about the most personal sh** in their lives to ChatGPT,\u201d Altman said. \u201cPeople use it \u2014 young people, especially, use it \u2014 as a therapist, a life coach; having these relationship problems and [asking] \u2018what should I do?\u2019 And right now, if you talk to a therapist or a lawyer or a doctor about those problems, there\u2019s legal privilege for it. There\u2019s doctor-patient confidentiality, there\u2019s legal confidentiality, whatever. And we haven\u2019t figured that out yet for when you talk to ChatGPT.\u201dAltman 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. \u201cI think that\u2019s 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 \u2014 and no one had to think about that even a year ago,\u201d Altman said.Later, Altman asked the podcast host how he uses ChatGPT. To this, Von responded that he didn\u2019t talk to the AI chatbot much due to his own privacy concerns. To this, Altman replied: \u201cI think it makes sense \u2026 to really want the privacy clarity before you use [ChatGPT] a lot \u2014 like the legal clarity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For all those who use ChatGPT for relationship advise, health advise or similar personal stuff, think again. 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