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.

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 status page indicated that ChatGPT was operational. However, the company acknowledged that the Workspace Analytics tab was malfunctioning for some ChatGPT Enterprise users.

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.

OpenAI explained that the incident was completely a ‘technical glitch’ and it has been fixed. The company is not coming up with any update as some of the rumors suggested. A reddit user @SentuBill, shared a screenshot on X (previously Twitter) where ChatGPT first started the conversation without any prompt.