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Theo Von. The section roughly twelve minutes in, where Altman admits there is no legal privilege for ChatGPT conversations and that OpenAI can be ordered to hand them over in a lawsuit, is the single most-quoted piece of footage on this topic — and worth hearing in his own voice rather than via a news clip. The rest of the conversation is wide-ranging, but that one exchange is the honest answer to the question the article asks: "what does the company actually do with what I type?"
The legal-privilege point is durable, while product settings and retention controls change. Pair this with the current OpenAI memory, data controls and workspace policy pages before setting team rules.
Understand that chatbot conversations are not automatically private, privileged or safe for sensitive business details.
None, but jump to the privacy/legal-privilege segment if you do not want the full long-form interview.
Last reviewed: May 18, 2026
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