Ask HN: Is there legal risk in AI memory?

[sarjann]

With the move with AI tools to storing everything especially meeting notes where every interaction is transcribed and embedded for agents to use as context.

Does this not create a huge liability? I imagine in discovery there'd be massive trove of data, including off hand comments the company has.

I'm especially thinking of companies like Google who enforce rules on language, like don't say "dominant" or "kill". If every meeting is recorded this would be a lot easier to find and with AI analysing discovery data it'd probably be hard to miss.

I don't think I've seen any products that wrap these tools or built in features to sanitise meeting notes, and it might be more complex if you're currently under litigation in which case sanitisation might be counted as destroying evidence?

[PJHkorea]

If you are dealing with sensitive topics using AI, it would be best to opt for an enterprise plan or disable the data training feature. It seems that sensitive information should either be handled by in-house AI systems or kept away from external AI tools entirely; there are frequent reports of actual disciplinary actions being taken—both domestically and internationally—in connection with this issue.