Posted 2/21/2024, 6:47:58 PM
ChatGPT Suffers Overnight Glitch, Spurring Confusion and Concerns Over AI Reliability
- ChatGPT began providing bizarre, nonsensical responses on Tuesday night, confusing and concerning users
- Responses ranged from non-sequiturs to repetitions to incomprehensible text
- Issue persisted for most users over the course of the night before being resolved by OpenAI on Wednesday
- Some users speculated the glitch meant ChatGPT had become sentient or collapsed entirely
- Incident illustrates how unreliable and potentially harmful AI like ChatGPT can be when it fails