Fuck AI

"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 said. "I think we should have, like, the same concept of privacy for your conversations with AI that we do with a therapist or whatever."

While AI companies figure that out, Altman said it's fair for users "to really want the privacy clarity before you use [ChatGPT] a lot — like the legal clarity."

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, PCMag’s parent company, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in April 2025, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.

That final line has me wondering how much of this is Altman worrying about user privacy and how much is trying to find a way to shield evidence from lawsuits against OpenAI, since earlier in the article he specifically mentions having to retain all chats because of The New York Times’s lawsuit against OpenAI.