Your Chatbot Conversations Could Be Used in Court

Your Chatbot Conversations Could Be Used in Court

From Terms of Service with Clare Duffy by CNN Podcasts

June 9, 2026 · 26 min

About this episode

This episode discusses how AI chatbot conversations are being used as evidence in court and the implications for users.

Some AI chatbot users are now seeing their chats being used as evidence in court cases. CNN's Eric Levenson explains how this works, why it’s happening now and why you should think twice before sharing sensitive information with a chatbot. Terms of Service is a CNN Podcasts and Goat Rodeo production. This episode was produced by Hazel Hoffman. At Goat Rodeo, the lead producer is Rebecca Seidel, and the executive producers are Megan Nadolski and Ian Enright. At CNN, Dan Bloom is our Senior Producer and Dan Dzula is our Technical Director. Production support from Sofía Sanchez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Clare Duffy

Topics covered

  • AI chatbots
  • legal evidence
  • privacy concerns
  • court cases
  • sensitive information

Keywords

  • AI
  • chatbot
  • court
  • evidence
  • privacy
  • sensitive information
  • legal

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Organizations: CNN, Goat Rodeo

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