OpenAI confirmed this to Futurism after a viral Reddit post showed ChatGPT initiating a conversation with a user. "Did ...

Over the weekend, a Redditor claimed that ChatGPT initiated conversations with them, which isn't supposed to happen. After ...

People assumed ChatGPT's sudden ability to message users proactively was a newly trained behavior. Others believed the whole ...

How bizarre would it be to be using an AI tool if, out of nowhere, it took the first step and initiated the conversation?

OpenAI has now confirmed that ChatGPT indeed initiated a conversation without user prompting. The company says the issue has been fixed now.

"Did you just message me first ... As a result, it either gave a generic response or drew on ChatGPT's memory." However, other users reported seeing similar behavior, leaving the possibility ...

Reddit user @SentuBill posted a screenshot of the conversation. showing ChatGPT asking about the former’s first week at high school. In the post “Did ChatGPT just message me… First?” ...

ChatGPT can message the user first, which is a first for OpenAI and the industry. A Reddit user shared an image that shows ChatGPT starting a conversation (prompting the user?) with a simple ...

Probably, the developers were waiting until they had enough user data to implement such a feature». Earlier this year, ChatGPT received «memory» which may be related to such sudden messages from the ...

In a Sept. 15 post, a Reddit user with the screen name “SentuBill" claimed that the ChatGPT large language model (LLM) initiated a conversation by asking him how his first day in school was going.

The growth in ChatGPT users reflects the increasing demand for AI tools and the OpenAI's successful monetization efforts.

A freaky occurrence where ChatGPT messaged users unprompted is just a bug. OpenAI confirmed this to Futurism after a viral Reddit post showed ChatGPT initiating a conversation with a user.