Never use ChatGPT for these five tasks
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It's not a lawyer, it's not a doctor and it's definitely not your therapist. The roster of people who have self-pwned by typing the wrong information into ChatGPT continues to grow. Samsung engineers, the acting director of America's cyber defense agency, self-represented litigants who provide citations to court cases that don't exist, a man who swapped table salt for sodium bromide after asking how to cut salt from his diet... the list is too long. Even everyone's favorite all-lowercase techbro CEO Sam Altman concedes that what you're sharing with ChatGPT isn't privileged. Speaking to podcaster Theo Von in July 2025, he highlighted how courts could force OpenAI to hand over chats, calling it "very screwed up." Tell a doctor, lawyer or therapist something and the law shields that conversation, but…
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