ClaimsSam Altman

“I don’t even think it’s legal.”

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, interviewee 11 September 2025 Transcript: Sam Altman Interview on Tucker Carlson Show (Singju Post)

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Asked by Tucker Carlson whether "it" would be legal to do, Sam Altman said he did not think it was legal.

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  1. Resolved true Factual 11 September 2025
    “And right now, we don’t have that.”

    As of September 2025, US law gives no legal privilege protecting users' conversations with AI comparable to doctor or lawyer confidentiality.

  2. Resolved true Factual 22 July 2020
    “We share your concern about bias and safety in language models, and it's a big part of why we're starting off with a beta and have safety review before apps can go live.”

    Altman said that "we" share concerns about bias and safety in language models, and that this is a big part of why "we" are starting off with a beta and have safety review before apps can go live.

  3. Mostly true Factual 4 September 2026
    “The very end of 2015, we announced it, and then the first day of work was like January of 2016.”

    Altman said OpenAI was announced at the very end of 2015 and that its first day of work was around January 2016.

  4. Mostly true Factual 4 September 2026
    “not until 2020 did we train GPT-3, which was the first model that I think actually was over some threshold of usability.”

    OpenAI trained GPT-3 in 2020, which Altman considers the first model above a threshold of usability.

  5. Mostly true Factual 4 September 2026
    “Absolutely. To go back to the analogy of electricity, there’s this amazing chart of what it cost to have an hour of light at night.”

    A chart exists showing the historical cost of an hour of light at night, with early data points at about 5 hours of labor per hour of light.

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