ChatGPT owner OpenAI fixes bug that exposed users’ chat histories

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 had a significant issue in ChatGPT due to a bug in an open-source library,” Altman said. “We feel awful about this.”

An OpenAI spokesperson told Bloomberg News “the titles were visible in the user-history sidebar that typically appears on the left side of the ChatGPT webpage … [but] the substance of other users’ conversations was not visible”.

Since ChatGPT was launched, it has seen meteoric growth with millions of people using the software for various activities – from streamlining the coding process or developing architectural designs to how we use search engines, write essays, draft messages, songs, novels and jokes.

If you use #ChatGPT be careful! There's a risk of your chats being shared to other users! Today I was presented another user's chat history. I couldn't see contents, but could see their recent chats' titles.#security #privacy #openAI #AI pic.twitter.com/DLX3CZntao

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