Altman is the untrusted third party in every conversation everyone has with one of his chatbots. He is the eternal Carol, forever eavesdropping on Alice and Bob:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
Altman isn't proposing that *chatbots* acquire a privilege, in other words - he's proposing that *he* should acquire this privilege. That he (and he alone) should be able to mine your queries for new training data and other surveillance bounties.
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