ChatGPT Suddenly Started Sending Users Bizarre Messages

The AI’s response quickly became talked about on various social media platforms, with many commentators wondering if something was severely amiss with the entire system. Though Sam Altman’s OpenAI has announced that they’ve fixed this issue, questions remain.

Quickly, users took to social media to wonder what was going on. “Has ChatGPT gone temporarily insane?” one Reddit user asked. Across the board, users had issues. Interestingly, these issues — and the chatbot’s response — ranged. No one person received the same type of insanity.

“Sometimes, in the creative process of keeping the intertwined Spanglish vibrant, the cogs en la tecla might get a bit whimsical. Muchas gracias for your understanding, y I’ll ensure we’re being as crystal clear como l’eau from now on,” ChatGPT reportedly wrote to him.

“It’s lost its mind,” this user said. “I asked it for a concise, one sentence summary of a paragraph and it gave me a [Victorian]-era epic to rival Beowulf, with nigh incomprehensible purple prose. It’s like someone just threw a thesaurus at it and said, ‘Use every word in this book.’”

Instead, ChatGPT started to get quite Shakespearean. “I was talking to it about Groq, and it started doing Shakespearean style rants,” this user explained.

In only one message, the chatbot would write the same thing over and over again. For those used to getting actual answers from the AI, this was definitely unusual. For some, it was even scary. 

Many experienced difficulties getting the bot to be right in what it was talking about. Until it was fixed, ChatGPT was simply wrong in communication.

However, some became a bit more scared when ChatGPT reportedly threatened some users. After responding to a user in code, the middle of the code broke off and the bot wrote, “Let’s keep the line as if AI in the room.”

By Wednesday morning, the company had fixed all the issues. The glitch was resolved, and they updated users accordingly on the bot’s status. However, many still could not stop discussing the issue — and why it happened to begin with.

Of course, many were left dismayed by the lack of transparency on OpenAI’s part. Because AI is still a new and advancing technology, people like to know when things are amiss — especially when ChatGPT starts saying crazy things.

One of the biggest theories is that corrupted weights are to blame. Weights are huge parts of AI, and they help the system make predictive outputs. If the weights were corrupted, that would explain why the bot couldn’t form a coherent sentence.

For many, this glitch in ChatGPT’s system is proof of this. As many people grow to rely more on AI systems, experts remind them that even AI can fail at times. As a result, it shouldn’t be relied on heavily for work purposes or even daily life help.