Ceo Of OpenAi Admits That Some Chatgpt Users Were Able To View The Conversation Titles Of Others Due To A Bug

On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a bug that allowed certain users of their popular AI chatbot ChatGPT to see messages from others.

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Altman tweeted, "We had a severe issue with ChatGPT owing to a fault in an open-source library, for which a fix has just been issued and we have just finished verifying."

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"Just a small number of users may access the titles of other users' discussion histories."

As early as Monday, several individuals reported receiving messages from others.

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Reddit users reported seeing previously undisclosed talks on the sidebar, including discussions labeled "Xi Jinping's Six Principles" and "China's Socialism Progress."

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Another Twitter user uploaded an image of their ChatGPT, which displayed chat titles from discussions they had never had.

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According to Trade Algo, OpenAI briefly stopped the chatbot on Monday after hearing allegations about other people's chat histories becoming viewable.

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"We feel terrible about this," Altman tweeted on Tuesday.

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The problem has since been resolved. According to Altman, as a result of the patch, users will no longer be able to view chat logs for ChatGPT discussions that occurred between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. and 10 a.m. Monday, March 20th, at 8:00 a.m. Pacific time.

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ChatGPT's popularity skyrocketed quickly after its November launch. The program allows users to fill in prompts to produce human-like replies using a big language model driven by massive quantities of data.

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It has been used to write school essays, song lyrics, and even lines of code for software.

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According to a Trade Algo report published last week, ChatGPT had 100 million monthly active users by January, barely two months after its inception, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history.

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TikTok took nine months to gain 100 million subscribers, whereas Instagram took two and a half years to achieve the same level of popularity.

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