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.

OpenAI has confirmed that ChatGPT is not supposed to send unprompted responses, after a viral Reddit post showed the chatbot messaging users first.

ChatGPT will no longer slip into your DMs. OpenAI recently fixed an issue where the AI would message people unprompted, which led to some users feeling a little creeped out. On September 15, user SentuBill posted a screenshot on the ChatGPT subreddit showing the generative model asking them about their first week at high school.

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.