ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says

If you paste plaintext passwords into ChatGPT, the problem is not ChatGPT; the problem is you.

ChatGPT doesn't leak passwords. Chat history is leaking which one of those happens to contain a plain text password. What's up with the current trend of saying AI did this and that while the AI really didn't?

That's funny, all I see is ********

So what actually happened seems to be this.

• a user was exposed to another users conversation.

thats a big ooof and really shouldn’t happen

• the conversations that where exposed contained sensitive userinformation

unresponsible user error, everyone and their mom should know better by now

They weren't there when I used ChatGPT just last night (I'm a pretty heavy user). No queries were made—they just appeared in my history, and most certainly aren't from me (and I don't think they're from the same user either).

This sounds more like a huge fuckup with the site, not the AI itself.

Edit: A depressing amount of people commenting here obviously didn't read the article...

LOL people are teaching ChatGPT their passwords? Why?

It also literally says to not input sensitive data...

This is one of the first things I flagged regarding LLMs, and later on they added the warning. But if people don't care and are still gonna feed the machine everything regardless, then that's a human problem.

And Google is bringing AI to private text messages. It will read all of your previous messages. On iOS? Better hope nothing important was said to anyone with an Android phone (not that I trust Apple either).

The implications are terrifying. Nudes, private conversations, passwords, identifying information like your home address, etc. There's a lot of scary scenarios. I also predict that Bard becomes closet racist real fast.

We need strict data privacy laws with teeth. Otherwise corporations will just keep rolling out poorly tested, unsecured, software without a second thought.

AI can do some cool stuff, but the leaks, misinformation, fraud, etc., scare the shit out of me. With a Congress aged ~60 years old on average, I'm not counting on them to regulate or even understand any of this.

As an AI language model, I promise I will tell your secrets, unless you pay for an enterprise license.

And people wonder why I don't use ChatGPT.

Not directly related, but you can disable chat history per-device in ChatGPT settings - that will also stop OpenAI from training on your inputs, at least that's what they say.

How does it get the password to begin with?

Shit in, shit out!

Who knew everyone had the same password as me? I always thought I was the only 'hunter2' out there!

Use local and open source models if you care about privacy.

Why the fuck would you give any AI your password???? People are so goddamn stupid

12345? That is what an idiot would use for the password to his luggage!

ROFL…