ChatGPT returns “meaningless words” for hours, users call it “haunting”
ChatGPT was giving “weird” responses, developers using the tool said (Representational)
San Francisco:
ChatGPT gave meaningless answers to users’ questions for hours from Tuesday to Wednesday before finally returning to its senses.
OpenAI, which makes world-leading generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, said a software tweak had “introduced a bug in the way it processes the model language”.
“Upon identifying the cause of this incident, we released a solution and confirmed that the incident has been resolved,” it said.
In a discussion forum on the OpenAI website developers using the tool said that ChatGPT was giving “weird” responses, generating non-existent words, incomplete sentences and general gobbledygook.
“This leaves me with a strange list of meaningless words,” one developer lamented.
“It feels like my GPT is haunted or compromised by something, either on my side or on OpenAI’s (end) side.”
More than 16 hours passed before OpenAI updated the page with a message that ChatGPT was working normally.
The San Francisco-based technology firm responded to an AFP query by directing it to the ChatGPT status page.
OpenAI recently struck a deal with investors that reportedly values the start-up at $80 billion or more, following a tumultuous year for the tech firm.
The deal, reported by The New York Times but not yet confirmed by OpenAI, would mean the value of the company – the world leader in generic AI – would nearly triple in less than 10 months.
OpenAI led a revolution in AI when it put its ChatGPT program online in late 2022.
The immediate success of the interface sparked tremendous interest in cutting-edge technology capable of generating text, sound, and images on demand.
OpenAI – which also makes the image-generating DALL-E – recently released a new tool called Sora, which can create realistic videos of up to a minute through simple user gestures.
Microsoft has invested about $13 billion in OpenAI, using the start-up’s technology in its search engine Bing and other services.
Microsoft has been locked in a tough competition with Google to launch new AI-infused tools, to such an extent that in January the US Federal Trade Commission opened an investigation into the heavy investments made by Microsoft, Google and Amazon in such specialized start-ups. Started.
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