OpenAI Chief Confirms ChatGPT Bug Leaked User Chats: Learn More

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has confirmed that a bug in ChatGPT leaked user data, and says the company feels “terrible” and the problem has now been fixed. ChatGPT has attracted a lot of attention and this is a worrying development that has made some headlines.

But such cases are difficult to remove for millions of users of the platform. Data leaks are a serious problem, and when you’re conversing with AI Chatbots with random and personal questions, the last thing you want is for all that information to be publicly available.

ChatGPT has become an AI chatbot since its launch earlier this year. You even have a Plus version that helps you offer advanced features at an affordable price. But the chatbot design means that all your conversations are saved in the user history section. The bug resulted in people seeing conversations with the chatbot that they never had.

This means that people were seeing other people’s conversations in their history bar. OpenAI discovered the bug after users complained about this issue, and earlier this week ChatGPT was disabled to fix the problem, which, as Altman explained, has now been fixed. At the rate AI Chatbots are trickling down the market, such events are likely to happen.

Microsoft has invested billions in OpenAI, which has allowed the company to use ChatGPT and its latest versions before other players in the industry. Google has charted its own path with the Bard AI chatbot, which is still available in certain parts of the world.

AI has consequences, and OpenAI using user data/chats to train a model means any mishap like this week’s can invariably shatter people’s trust in AI chatbots. Legislation is necessary to avoid the harm that can be caused by machines trained to learn from our content.

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