According to reports, the titles of the conversations were visible but the substance of other users’ conversations was not.
ChatGPT owner OpenAI says it has fixed a bug that caused a “significant issue” of a small set of users being able to see the titles of others’ conversation history with the viral chatbot.
As a result of the fix, users could not access their chat history on March 20, Chief Executive Sam Altman said in a tweet on Wednesday.
We encountered a serious problem with ChatGPT because of a fault in an open-source library, according to Altman. We are very sorry about this.
“The titles were visible in the user-history sidebar that typically appears on the left side of the ChatGPT webpage,” an OpenAI official told Bloomberg News. However, it was unable to see the content of other users’ talks.
Since its release, ChatGPT has had rapid growth, with millions of users using the programme for a variety of purposes, including speeding the development of architectural designs or the coding process, as well as how we utilise search engines, compose essays, text messages, songs, novels, and jokes.
Every conversation is immediately preserved, and ChatGPT assigns a tab label based on the initial query’s topic.
Users called attention to the fact that discussions appear in their history on Monday even though they are unable to view the content.
The business “will follow up with a technical postmortem,” according to Altman.
The artificial intelligence model GPT-4, an update to GPT-3.5, which was made available to users through ChatGPT on November 30, was released by Microsoft Corp.-backed OpenAI last week.
According to statistics from analytics company Similarweb, individuals have been using the underutilised search engine as a result of the incorporation of OpenAI’s GPT technology into Microsoft’s Bing.
The launch of ChatGPT last year has sparked a rush in the IT industry to make AI more accessible to users. The goal is to change the way people work and gain clients as a result.
Google and Microsoft each released a rush of AI-related announcements last week, two days apart. In addition to providing marketing-related tools for web developers to create their own AI-based products, the businesses are integrating draught-writing technology into their word processors and other collaboration software.
Bard’s release
Google started making its chatbot Bard available to the general public on Tuesday and is looking for input.
When asked if competitive forces were driving Bard’s rollout, senior product director Jack Krawczyk responded that Google was centred on users. Both internal and external testers have consulted Bard, according to the expert, to “boost their productivity, accelerate their ideas, and really fuel their curiosity.”
Accuracy is still a problem. A promotional film from last month showed the programme answering a question incorrectly, devaluing Alphabet by $100 billion.
We want to be very deliberate about how quickly we spread this out because we are aware of the limitations of the technology, according to Krawczyk.