Imagine this scenario: you’re worried you may have committed a crime, so you turn to a trusted advisor — OpenAI’s blockbuster ChatGPT, say — to describe what you did and get its advice.
This isn’t remotely far-fetched; lots of people are already getting legal assistance from AI, on everything from divorce proceedings to parking violations. Because people are amazingly stupid, it’s almost certain that people have already asked the bot for advice about enormously consequential questions about, say, murder or drug charges.
According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, anyone’s who’s done so has made a massive error — because unlike a human lawyer with whom you enjoy sweeping confidentiality protections, ChatGPT conversations can be used against you in court.
You mean I shouldn’t sign up for an account with somebody else’s chatbot using credentials traceable to me and confess crimes to it?
This is why I only confess my crimes to my local LLM.
What’s the name and IP of your LLM? I also want to confess some crimes.
It’s at http://127.0.0.1:5001/. It’s my sex box, though. And her name is Sony.
Lol. LMAO, even.
FBI: No, it’s fine, they have a privacy policy.
Wow. People really have become stupid. Asking an AI for help in medical and legal questions is among the dumbest thing one can do.
This has been the case for a long time. Plenty of folks have had search history used as evidence.
Sensationalism at its best.
What do you know? You’re just an AI
Yeah, this was famously a huge part of the Casey Anthony trial.
Accidentally doomed yourself, as opposed to intentionally doing it by getting legal advice from ChatGPT in the first place.
Dear ChatGPT, I want to build a spaceship fleet and conquer the Andromeda galaxy and use it to power my AI data center. Can I get in trouble for that? Thanks. Sincerely, LLMAO.
Using a search engine for an answer now could get you in that same trap then no? Even DDG has an AI answer generated automatically.
Rapp Snitch Knishes by MF DOOM comes to mind
Rap snitches, telling all their business Sit in the court and be their own star witness “Do you see the perpetrator?” “Yeah, I’m right here” Fuck around, get the whole label sent up for years
Love that song!
According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Why would I care about Altman’s opinion on this?
Because he’s the one handing over conversation records to the police.
In this case, he’s right.
So? He’s not a lawyer. If this is obvious to non-lawyers just say it. Or do they have to report everything he says on any topic?
“According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pizza is good!”.
