OpenAI CEO Sam Altman指出，越来越多用户，尤其是年轻人，开始将ChatGPT用作心理治疗师、人生导师或寻求恋爱建议。然而，与真正的治疗师不同，这些对话可能不享有法律特权和保密性。Altman强调，如果OpenAI面临诉讼，用户的敏感信息可能被强制披露，这与医生-病人或律师-客户之间的法律保密原则相去甚远。他认为应尽快解决AI对话的隐私保护问题，使其拥有与传统治疗师对话同等的隐私权。目前，删除的对话通常在30天后永久清除，除非出于法律或安全原因需要保留，但相关数据保留政策和法律纠纷仍是用户关注的焦点。

🧑‍⚕️ **ChatGPT的“治疗师”角色日益凸显：** OpenAI CEO Sam Altman观察到，特别是年轻用户群体，正越来越多地依赖ChatGPT来寻求心理健康支持、人生指导和情感建议，使其成为一种非正式的“AI治疗师”。

⚖️ **法律保密性缺失是关键隐患：** 与传统职业如医生、律师不同，用户与ChatGPT的对话不具备法律特权和保密性。Altman指出，在法律诉讼等情况下，OpenAI可能被迫提供用户对话记录，这与现有法律框架下的职业保密原则存在巨大差异，可能泄露用户的敏感个人信息。

🔒 **数据保留与隐私政策的模糊性：** 尽管OpenAI表示删除的对话通常在30天后被永久清除，但法律或安全原因可能导致数据被保留。近期，《纽约时报》等媒体提起的诉讼要求OpenAI无限期保留所有用户日志，包括已删除的聊天记录，这进一步加剧了用户对数据隐私的担忧，并引发了法律上的争议。

🚀 **亟需解决的隐私保护问题：** Altman强调，AI对话的隐私保护问题亟待解决，并应尽快实现与人类治疗师对话同等的隐私保障。他认为，这不仅关乎用户信任，也是AI技术发展中必须正视和解决的伦理与法律挑战。

People are increasingly using ChatGPT for therapy and personal advice, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.Unlike real therapists, those conversations might not stay private if OpenAI were hit with a lawsuit, Altman said.Most deleted ChatGPT conversations are permanently wiped after 30 days.

More people are turning to ChatGPT as a therapist, but it might not always be a safe space.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, said those therapy-style conversations don't have the same legal protections as conversations with a real therapist.

"So if you go talk to ChatGPT about your most sensitive stuff and then there's like a lawsuit or whatever, we could be required to produce that, and I think that's very screwed up," Altman told podcaster Theo Von in an episode that aired Wednesday.

"Right now, if you talk to a therapist or a lawyer or a doctor about those problems, there's like legal privilege for it — there's doctor-patient confidentiality, there's legal confidentiality," Altman added. "We haven't figured that out yet for when you talk to ChatGPT."

Altman said there should be the "same concept of privacy for your conversations with AI that we do with a therapist" and that it should be "addressed with some urgency."

More users — particularly young people — are using ChatGPT as a therapist, life coach, or consulting it for relationship advice, Altman said.

"No one had to think about that even a year ago, and now I think it's this huge issue of like, 'How are we gonna treat the laws around this?'" Altman said.

Unlike conversations on encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp or Signal, it is possible for OpenAI to read chats between users and ChatGPT. This includes staff using conversations to fine-tune the AI model and monitoring for misuse.

According to OpenAI's data retention policies, deleted chats on ChatGPT Free, Plus, and Pro are permanently deleted within 30 days unless the company is required to keep them for "legal or security reasons."

In June, The New York Times and other news plaintiffs filed a court order against OpenAI seeking that it retain all ChatGPT user logs, including deleted chats, indefinitely. The order, which OpenAI is appealing, came as part of a wider copyright lawsuit.

Business Insider could not immediately reach OpenAI for comment.

Elsewhere on the Theo Von podcast, Altman, who became a father in February, said he was also worried about the psychological impact addictive social media platforms could have on children.