The AI bot is trained to respond to prompts but in a Reddit post, a user shared that they were asked a question out of the blue, showing shades of sentiency from the AI platform. According to OpenAI though, it was nothing more than a simple glitch.

In a recent event ChatGPT had started a conversation, as said by a Reddit user. According to @SentuBill (the Reddit user), he was being texted first by ChatGPT. However, things have taken a different turn now. OpenAI says that this was a ‘glitch’ and not an ‘update’.

OpenAI confirmed this to Futurism after a viral Reddit post showed ChatGPT initiating a conversation with a user. "Did ChatGPT just message me... first?" posted Redditor SentuBill with a screenshot of an exchange where ChatGPT allegedly asked the user about their first week at high school.

OpenAI has since addressed the issue, attributing it to a technical glitch rather than a new feature. According to user reports on Reddit, ChatGPT appeared to initiate conversations on topics ranging from high school experiences to health symptoms.

ChatGPT suffered an outage from Tuesday through Wednesday, impacting several users who said they had issues accessing OpenAI’s chatbot. The services remained down for hours, which OpenAI said, was due to API models showing “elevated error rates.

ChatGPT suffered an outage earlier today. The company has applied a fix and things are getting back to normal.