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.
