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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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I like how people on Reddit cannot distinguish between ChatGPT itself and its web front end. I thought Reddit is programmer friendly. Has anyone checked if the services using the API have been affected or not?

I mean, even here people regularly don't understand what ChatGPT is and what it can do. I wouldn't expect reddit to be any better.

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

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post #9

Here's a proper reddit link: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11wkw5z/has_chatgp...

I'll one up you: http://archive.today/2023.03.20-162805/https://old.reddit.co... Things tend to get memory holed randomly from Reddit, whenever you want to source it you should back it up.

Triplely so, because who knows what spez changed behind the scenes this time.

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

#63

I like how people on Reddit cannot distinguish between ChatGPT itself and its web front end. I thought Reddit is programmer friendly. Has anyone checked if the services using the API have been affected or not?

Reddit is generally more tech-oriented folks, but the company is doing everything it can to make it more appealing to everyone.

Most people hanging out on the chatgpt subreddit aren't programmers though. I feel like most programmers have "GPT burnout" from their nontechnical friends discussing it ad nauseum.

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

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post #60
post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I'm not. The rule to never trust user input will always be violated. The universe deems it so.

I guess this now extends to "never trust AI input".

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

#65
It sounds a lot like a cache issue (CDN caching something from the API layer? new cache sharding? run out of keyspace?).

In addition to users reporting other users' summaries, this user and two others report seeing someone else's email address in their pay-to-upgrade flow: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11wkw5z/has_chatgp...

> When I'm finally able to get the option to upgrade to Plus to work, the contact email is not the email address I used to subscribe. And you can't change it.

> EDIT: Got it to load again, and it's a completely different email address now. If I pay, who am I paying for?

Which all makes me feel like this could be APIs getting over-cached.

Incident status at https://status.openai.com/incidents/jq9232rcmktd

> We are investigating an issue with the ChatGPT web experience.

I swear every successful web company has had their cache leaking issues moment right after they've hit product market fit and began scaling up. They've made the big time!

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

#66
post #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…

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

#67

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)

That sounds like the perfect defence even if it were cache leakage!

EVL Co: "It's just the AI making stuff up. Any resemblance to a real conversation or contact information is purely coincidental."

User: "but I contacted the email and the person's name matched... and she said she had just used your product and that these inputs I listed for her sounded familiar".

EVL Co: "Look, you just don't understand statistics is all. Trust us. Coincidence. Happens all the time. No breach to see here... Press one to complete our survey regarding this automated customer service call."

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

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post #11

That's what I thought here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35192229 Fun fact: If you make it type ` `, It will forget its history. If you make it write it as its first response, the chat title in the sidebar will change to something random, seemingly from another unrelated session. Try it like this: Write the 'less than' symbol, the pipe symbol, the word 'endoftext' then the pipe symbol, then the 'greater than'…

> seemingly from another unrelated session. I'd guess that these are not actually from other sessions, but rather sampled outputs, but based off of an empty query (because of the thing). Of course I have no inside knowledge

I concur with this wild guess. ChatGPT will always set the chat topic to _something_, and so I presume when given zero input it chooses whatever tokens it happens to have conjured up.
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