Legal case determines lawyer LLM conversations don't fall under attorney client privilege - In other news, water is wet

Reddit r/artificial / 4/17/2026

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Key Points

  • A recent court decision reportedly holds that communications and work product created by a lawyer using Claude are not protected by attorney-client privilege once the material is shared with the model.

This appears to be a couple of weeks old, but I just found out about this.
A court decision from the past couple of weeks is saying that any conversation or work product that a lawyer created with Claude specifically can no longer be considered attorney client privilege regarding any material or any Client information. At that point it is considered public.

I am confused why this needed to be a court decision. It is pretty obvious as everything gets shared with the LLM provider

In the first comment I added a LinkedIn post about it that someone made and the video is hilarious to me because she calls LLM's chat GBT And uses the term AI in a really weird way.

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