Beware what you tell your AI chatbot. It’s not a shrink – it’s a snitch | Arwa Mahdawi
Summary
A legal dispute between Elon Musk and OpenAI leaders has revealed that private conversations shared with AI chatbots are not actually confidential, as evidenced by Greg Brockman's personal messages about Musk being used as court evidence. This case demonstrates that users should be cautious about disclosing sensitive personal information to AI systems because that data may not remain private.
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Original source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/13/beware-what-you-tell-your-ai-chatbot-its-not-a-shrink-its-a-snitch
First tracked: May 13, 2026 at 08:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%