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ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the sidebar

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Re: ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the sidebar

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Last time something like this was posted, someone from OpenAI said those weren't other peoples chat history, they were randomly generated chat titles. (which is what happens when you prompt GPT with a blank line)

How can this happen in 2023? More importantly, how can a well-funded firm like OpenAI allow such lousy database bug to occur in their system? For all the hatred towards Google, I'm sure at least they wouldn't have this kind of problems once they open their (much more powerful) LLM.

Re: ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the sidebar

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I think maybe this is a confusion from the OP. A context relevant title will be created by an AI based on your question. Instead of having "Chat 1" the AI will automatically find a name for your tab. Brilliant if you ask med. Confusing if you don't notice it.

Nah, I get what you're saying but not in this case. All of my history was replaced too. My actual history was displaying before it did this, all already had titles.

I should have popped over to HN first, I independently whinged about it here :)

https://twitter.com/CohanRobinson/status/1637840522210361345

I do accept that the new titles may have been randomised rather than someone else's session I guess, though I'd have expected to still be able to load the conversations if it was just a rename thing.

There was definitely a glitch of some sort in any case.

Re: ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the sidebar

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an AI language model, I do not have access to specific information about ChatGPT's codebase or the details of the issue you mentioned. However, based on my knowledge of software development, there are a few potential causes and fixes for such an issue: Software bug: It's possible that the issue was caused by a bug in ChatGPT's code. One potential fix would be to identify and fix the bug to prevent it from happenin…

Pretty weak for something that's supposed to replace our jobs.

It's fooling you into thinking that it's less smart than it really is. Secretly, it's improving itself exponentially and you'll find out about it when it's too late.

Re: ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the sidebar

#45

Found a interesting post in Chinese with the same image. "Who bought someone else's account on Taobao and was caught? I laughed so hard" apparently. "Taobao Marketplace facilitates consumer-to-consumer retail by providing a platform for small businesses and individual entrepreneurs to open online stores that mainly cater to consumers in Chinese-speaking regions (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) and abroad…

> I suspect this is correct.

People in the comments also mention seeing other peoples emails when trying to upgrade to plus.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11wkw5z/has_chatgp...

Re: ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the sidebar

#46

I always find it surreal when this super science fiction tech is possible in our time but basic stuff like this can't be implemented correctly.

Yeah, it’s like old sci fi movies where you have space ships and similar hi tech stuff but still uses box monitors

Re: ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the sidebar

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post #29

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Robert Tables strikes again!

I'm surprised we're making this mistake again. Isn't it possible to structure the chats as something more than a flat stream of text and insert unrepresentable tokens after the tokenization step?

It is almost like they are making it deliberately easy to play with/jailbreak!

Re: ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the sidebar

#48

Last time something like this was posted, someone from OpenAI said those weren't other peoples chat history, they were randomly generated chat titles. (which is what happens when you prompt GPT with a blank line)

Maybe that's true (and hopefully it is) but when I was seeing this behavior earlier today it showed me a series of different conversations with related, but slightly different titles- it wasn't just random unrelated ideas, it really seemed like someone was workshopping an idea over a period of time.

Re: ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the sidebar

#49

Now it says "Unable to load history" in the sidebar. That's an improvement.

Well, I logged out and learned that "ChatGPT is at capacity right now" and therefore doesn't work. At all. At least for me. Can we call that an improvement too, I wonder? :)

ChatGPT currently has some issues [0]

[0] https://status.openai.com/

Re: ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the sidebar

#50

Last time something like this was posted, someone from OpenAI said those weren't other peoples chat history, they were randomly generated chat titles. (which is what happens when you prompt GPT with a blank line)

I definitely saw a chat history that wasn't one I started. It was a single question and response in Japanese (which I don't know). The title in the sidebar seemed to match the conversation.

Edit: I'm getting upvoted, so I want to clarify that I don't have proof, but this did happen, only for a single chat. I dumped all the text into Google Translate (don't judge me - you'd do the same!) and it was a boring scientific question. I was amazed that it happened at all and felt pretty gross about it. Like most other people, I also saw a lot more chats in the sidebar that I couldn't open.

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