{"id":13890,"date":"2023-03-22T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T10:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gridinsoft.com\/blogs\/?p=13890"},"modified":"2023-03-22T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T10:18:26","slug":"other-peoples-chats-in-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gridinsoft.com\/blogs\/other-peoples-chats-in-chatgpt\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT Users Complained about Seeing Other People&#8217;s Chat Histories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h4>Some ChatGPT users have reported on social media that their accounts show other people&#8217;s chat histories.<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p>Let me remind you that we also wrote that <a href=\"\/blogs\/access-to-openai-chatgpt\/\">Russian Cybercriminals Seek Access to <strong>OpenAI ChatGPT<\/strong><\/a>, and also that <a href=\"\/blogs\/bing-chatbot-scammer\/\"><strong>Bing<\/strong> Chatbot Could Be a Convincing Scammer, Researchers Say<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The media also reported that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/adware.guru\/amateur-hackers-use-chatgpt\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Amateur Hackers Use ChatGPT to Create Malware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the OpenAI developers were forced to temporarily disable this functionality in order to fix the bug. The company emphasized that because of the bug, people saw <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/5d9zd5\/chatgpt-users-report-being-able-to-see-random-peoples-chat-histories\">only the headlines of other people&#8217;s conversations, but not their content<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ChatGPT interface has a sidebar that displays past conversations with the chatbot, visible only to the account owner. However, yesterday <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/ChatGPT\/comments\/11wkw5z\/has_chatgpt_or_me_been_hacked_ive_never_had_these\/\">several people<\/a> <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JordanLWheeler\/status\/1637853083865579520\">reported<\/a> that ChatGPT began showing them other people&#8217;s chat histories. At the same time, one of the users emphasized that he does not see all someone else&#8217;s correspondence, but only the names of different conversations with the bot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gridinsoft.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Alien-logs-in-the-sidebar.jpg\" alt=\"Other people&#039;s chats in ChatGPT\" title=\"\"><br \/>\nAlien logs in the sidebar<\/p>\n<p>After a number of messages about this problem, the chat histories began to give an error &#8220;Unable to load history&#8221;, and then the service was completely disabled. According to the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/status.openai.com\/incidents\/jq9232rcmktd\">OpenAI status page<\/a> and company representatives&#8217; comments, given by <strong>Bloomberg<\/strong>, the problem did not extend to the full conversation logs, and <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-03-21\/openai-shut-down-chatgpt-to-fix-bug-exposing-user-chat-titles\">only their titles were disclosed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The developers are now saying they have found the cause of the crash, which appears to be related to unnamed open-source software used by the OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>The service has been restored, but many users still do not see the old conversation logs, and the team assures that they are already working on restoring them.<\/p>\n<p>The media note that this is an important reminder of why you should not share any sensitive information with ChatGPT. After all, the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/help.openai.com\/en\/articles\/6783457-chatgpt-general-faq\">FAQ on the OpenAI website<\/a> has its reasons to say: &#8220;Please do not share any confidential information in your conversations.&#8221; The fact is that the company cannot remove certain data from the logs, and conversations with the chatbot can be used to train AI.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default su-quote-has-cite\"><div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">As part of our commitment to safe and responsible AI, we review conversations to improve our systems and to ensure the content complies with our policies and safety requirements.<span class=\"su-quote-cite\">the Open AI FAQ says.<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some ChatGPT users have reported on social media that their accounts show other people&#8217;s chat histories. Let me remind you that we also wrote that Russian Cybercriminals Seek Access to OpenAI ChatGPT, and also that Bing Chatbot Could Be a Convincing Scammer, Researchers Say. The media also reported that Amateur Hackers Use ChatGPT to Create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1156,1155,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-13890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-security-news","8":"tag-chatgpt","9":"tag-openai","10":"tag-protect-computer"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/gridinsoft.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Other-peoples-chats-in-ChatGPT.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Vladimir Krasnogolovy","author_link":"https:\/\/gridinsoft.com\/blogs\/author\/krasnogolovy\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridinsoft.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridinsoft.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridinsoft.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridinsoft.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridinsoft.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gridinsoft.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13892,"href":"https:\/\/gridinsoft.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890\/revisions\/13892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridinsoft.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridinsoft.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridinsoft.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridinsoft.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}