A federal judge ruled AI chats have no attorney-client privilege. A CEO's deleted ChatGPT conversations were recovered and used against him in court. On the same day, a different judge ruled the opposite.
Reddit - Artificial Intelligence
1 min read
About this article
A federal judge ruled that your AI conversations can be seized and used against you in court — and deleting them doesn't help. **The Heppner case (February 2026):** - Former CEO Bradley Heppner used Claude to prep his fraud defense - Judge Jed Rakoff ordered him to surrender 31 AI-generated documents - Ruling: no attorney-client privilege exists "or could exist" between a user and an AI platform **The Krafton case:** - A CEO used ChatGPT to plan how to avoid paying promised earnout payments -...
You've been blocked by network security.To continue, log in to your Reddit account or use your developer tokenIf you think you've been blocked by mistake, file a ticket below and we'll look into it.Log in File a ticket
Originally published on April 23, 2026.
Curated by AI News.
