OpenAI Shut Down ChatGPT to Fix Bug Exposing User Chat Titles
- OpenAI temporarily disabled its popular chatbot on Monday
- The previously unknown bug may have come from open-source code
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OpenAI temporarily shut down its popular ChatGPT service on Monday morning after receiving reports of a bug that allowed some users to see the titles of other users’ chat histories.
An OpenAI spokesperson told Bloomberg that the titles were visible in the user-history sidebar that typically appears on the left side of the ChatGPT webpage. The chatbot was temporarily disabled after the company heard these reports, the spokesperson said. The substance of the other users’ conversations was not visible.