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Worse than hallucinations! ChatGPT spews out nonsensical responses

ChatGPT users ran into a new problem recently where the AI chatbot spewed out nonsensical responses to prompts by users, forcing OpenAI to roll out a fix. Know what happened.

By: HT TECH
| Updated on: Feb 22 2024, 15:23 IST
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ChatGPT users complained of the AI chatbot providing nonsensical responses. (Pexels)

ChatGPT is considered the pioneer of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and is certainly one of the most popular ones around. However, that does not mean it is not susceptible to errors. While there have been reports about the AI chatbot hallucinating on certain issues in the past, several users faced a new problem, with the AI chatbot spewing nonsensical responses to prompts.

ChatGPT troubles

On February 20, several users reported running into issues on ChatGPT. The AI chatbot reportedly switched languages on its own, got stuck in loops, corrected itself on occasions and even spewed nonsensical replies. On the ChatGPT subreddit, one user wrote, “I was asking ChatGPT for some javascript code advice (we were talking bit back and forth since the suggested solutions didn't work) when suddenly it went to writing only rubbish.”

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The user further elaborated that ChatGPT correctly phrased the first sentence, but everything after that went South. While the code it generated was perceived to be fine, it could not string together sentences, often involving words from other languages, including even Latin!

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On the subreddit, another user questioned if ChatGPT was losing it. “I was chatting with ChatGPT on what Bill Evans Trio it would recommend on vinyl and it lost it. Like the temperature was too high in the parameters passed to the API. Never had this before.”

Shortly after, OpenAI acknowledged the problems and the ChatGPT status page read “We are investigating reports of unexpected responses from ChatGPT.” The issue was soon identified and OpenAI applied the fixes, following which it continued to monitor the situation.

Other issues

This is not a lone issue that has plagued the OpenAI chatbot in recent months. In January, it was reported that ChatGPT leaked several private conversations in an unrelated chat. What's more concerning is the leaked conversation not only included the name of the app the user was troubleshooting but also the login credentials, including the username and password.

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First Published Date: 22 Feb, 15:23 IST
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