Serious vulnerability in ChatGPT: users can see other people's chat titles

CTOnews.com March 21, ChatGPT's history chat feature has been offline since Tuesday morning because of a glitch that allows users to see short captions of other people chatting with AI.

One user posted a photo on Reddit, saying that the ChatGPT chat history bar showed a description of a chat that was not his own, while someone posted a screenshot of the same malfunction on Twitter. A spokesman for OpenAI confirmed the incident to Bloomberg and pointed out that the glitch did not show a complete transcript of the conversation, only a simple title.

This failure is an important reminder that users should be careful not to share sensitive information on ChatGPT. A FAQ on OpenAI also warned, "Please do not share any sensitive information in your conversation," noting that the company could not delete specific content from someone's history and that the conversation could be used for training.

OpenAI temporarily shut down ChatGPT while dealing with the glitch on Monday, but reopened it later that night, Bloomberg reported. As of CTOnews.com 's writing, the history chat sidebar has been replaced with a message: "History is temporarily unavailable, and we are working to restore this feature as soon as possible." .

It is speculated that the cause of the problem is an error in unnamed open source software, although the company is still conducting a detailed investigation into the cause.