Policy1 hOctober 23, 2026, 15:37

US courts treat AI chatbot logs as evidence, not private diaries

US courts are increasingly admitting AI chatbot logs as evidence: in United States v. Heppner a judge ruled that a defendant's Claude conversations were not shielded by attorney-client privilege. In May 2025 a court ordered OpenAI to hand over more than 20 million deleted ChatGPT logs in The New York Times copyright case.

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