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It will be interesting to see the legal boundary develop for this in future.

1. An individual may not want to share their chats with anyone. They may assume the chats to be privileged, just like attorney client privilege.

2. An individual may still want a legacy contact to get their past chats -- but only some chats, not others. Like you have attorney client privilege, but you can rope in your spouse. But what about inheritors, more so, named inheritors in a will or trust?

3. Law may require some chats to be shared with law enforcement

4. An aggrieved party may want to subpoena the chats

5. Laws may vary from country to country, or even county to county

6. Contracts, such as non-compete or otherwise, require some money to be paid for the agreement. A standard $20 per month may not be enough for that.

And on top of all of that,

7. LLM vendor may have something to hide :) and may not want to share the chats

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If an individual doesn't want to share their chats with anyone then they're free to negotiate such an agreement with an LLM vendor, or run a private LLM instance. There's no need for any new laws. The notion of treating an LLM legally like an attorney is ludicrous on the face of it.

I am just speculating after reading a part of this discussion, and my thoughts are quite raw and evolving. LLM plays a lot of roles - doctor, lawyer, healthcare professional. It is not a stretch to say that if a Doctor has obligations, so does LLM that plays that role.

// At least that's how we save some jobs from AI :)

No, that's incorrect. You appear to have made a category error and stretched beyond any possible logic. An LLM does not play any of those roles. Like most people I give my friends informal medical and legal advice all the time but that doesn't make me a doctor or lawyer and those conversations aren't entitled to any special legal confidentiality protection.

An LLM is not a doctor, lawyer, nor healthcare professional so I fail to see the relevance.

It’s more akin to Google having all your emails.

>They may assume the chats to be privileged, just like attorney client privilege.

While they shouldn't ever enjoy privilege quite that strong, unless there is probably cause for a criminal investigation why should anyone ever be allowed to know what has been said?

Besides medical records, are there other instances where these rules are followed?

And, could this make LLM chats fall under HIPPA law?

No, LLM vendors are not HIPAA covered entities. If users choose to enter their own healthcare data then that's on them and there is no legal protection.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities...

No. I could choose to post my personal medical information in the town square, that doesn't make the town square a HIPPA entity.

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