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Sam Altman says your ChatGPT therapy session might not stay private in a lawsuit
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this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2025
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I mean... Yeah, no shit. It's not therapy, and your chatbot shouldn't be pretending to offer professional services that require a license, Sam.
Let's be truthful. You don't want to have to explain or justify anything that your chatbot says, and you don't want the Courts to be able to analyze whether you've violated any rights or laws either.
It generates natural sounding language. That's all it's designed to do. The rest is up to the user - if a therapy session is what they ask then a therapy session is what they get. I don't think it should refuse this request either.
I mean there is some valid discussion going on whether some vulnerable people need protection. Generally I agree. But due to it's nature as a yes-man, ChatGPT will feel nice and give a lot of reaffirmation, which has the potential to mess up some people real bad and send them spiralling down. So they might indeed need some form of protection. But that shouldn't take anything away.