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OpenAI Shut down ChatGPT to Fix Chat Related Bug

OpenAI temporarily shut down its well-liked ChatGPT service after receiving reports of a problem that allowed some users to view the titles of other users' chat history

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Kapish Khajuria
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OpenAI shut down ChatGPT to fix Chat related bug

OpenAI temporarily shut down its well-liked ChatGPT service after receiving reports of a problem that allowed some users to view the titles of other users' chat history.

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After receiving reports of a bug that allowed some users to see the titles of other users' chat histories, OpenAI temporarily shut down its popular ChatGPT service.

Bloomberg was informed by an OpenAI spokesperson that the titles could be seen in the user-history sidebar, which is typically found on the left side of the ChatGPT webpage.

The spokesperson stated that after the company heard these reports, the chatbot was temporarily disabled. The conversations between the other users lacked substance. A bug in an anonymous piece of open-source programming caused the issue, the representative said. The exact cause is still under investigation by the company.

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A message said, "History is temporarily unavailable" in the area where users typically store their ChatGPT queries and responses. We are working to get this feature back up and running as soon as possible."

Even though ChatGPT returned to operation late on Monday night, users' chat histories were still missing as of late Monday night Pacific time. The spokesperson stated in the statement on Monday night: ChatGPT is currently back online, and we are working to restore chat history.

After that, OpenAI informed me that they had fixed the bug that was a big problem by letting a select few users see the names of other people's conversation histories with the viral chatbot.

In addition, since its launch at the end of last year, ChatGPT has experienced meteoric growth as users around the world became inventive with the prompts that the conversational chatbot uses to create everything from poems and novels to jokes and film scripts.

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