OpenAI’s immensely popular ChatGPT was taken offline earlier this week due to privacy concerns. Here’s what happened and all the other details to this point.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT witnessed an odd bug scenario earlier this week that allowed users to see another person’s conversation history with the chatty AI. Multiple users shared screenshots detailing the weird experience on social media, raising concerns about a privacy breach. Folks that are using its advanced assistance trick for business purposes like coding a project or helping with sensitive text drafts flagged risks of tangible financial loss. Company CEO Sam Altman quickly assured that the « significant » error was fixed following a brief service downtime, but something more worrying happened in the background.
We took ChatGPT offline Monday to fix a bug in an open source library that allowed some users to see titles from other users’ chat history.
