Delayed mea culpa isn’t a good look for a biz with ‘open’ in the name
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman feels «awful» about ChatGPT leaking some users’ chat histories on Monday, and blamed an open source library bug for the snafu.
In a couple of tweets, Altman admitted the flaw, which allowed some users to see snippets of others’ conversations — not the full contents, but recent titles – with the question-and-response bot.
«We had a significant issue in ChatGPT due to a bug in an open source library, for which a fix has now been released and we have just finished validating,» Altman said.
«A small percentage of users were able to see the titles of other users’ conversation history. We feel awful about this.»
Because of the buggy code, ChatGPT users won’t be able to access most of their March 20 conversations, he added.
