They confided in ChatGPT. Their secrets ended up in court.
bookofjoe · hn · 2026-08-28
A Washington Post investigation reports that users increasingly treat ChatGPT as a confidant—and those intimate chat logs are being swept into civil and criminal court cases, as lawyers obtain ChatGPT conversations through discovery and use them as evidence. The piece examines the clash between users' privacy expectations with AI chat and legal reality.
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