ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI, was taken offline for emergency maintenance on March 20 due to a bug in an open-source library that triggered a data breach.
At the time, many ChatGPT users reported that they could see titles from other active user’s chat history. Some also reported seeing in their own history other people’s first messages of new conservations with the chatbot.
The bug has since been patched. Co-founder and CEO Sam Altman said on Wednesday on Twitter that OpenAI “felt awful” about the data breach.
On Friday, OpenAI provided an update on the incident, saying that even more private data from some users were exposed, including users’ payment information….