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OpenAI has mitigated a data exfiltration bug in ChatGPT that could potentially leak conversation details to an external URL. According to the researcher who discovered the flaw, the mitigation isn't perfect, so attackers can still exploit it under certain conditions. Security researcher Johann Rehberger discovered a technique to exfiltrate data from ChatGPT and reported it to OpenAI in April 2023.
While AI is not a new technology - companies have been investing heavily in predictive and interpretive AI for years - the announcement of the GPT-3.5 series from OpenAI in late 2022 captured the world's attention and triggered a surge of investment in generative AI, according to IDC. As a result, IDC expects worldwide spending on AI solutions will grow to more than $500 billion in 2027. In turn, most organizations will experience a notable shift in the weight of technology investments toward AI implementation and adoption of AI-enhanced products/services.
OpenAI has been addressing "Periodic outages" due to DDoS attacks targeting its API and ChatGPT services within the last 24 hours. While the company didn't immediately provide any details on the root cause of these incidents, OpenAI confirmed earlier today that they're linked to ongoing distributed denial-of-service attacks.
Update November 8, 11:05 EST: OpenAI says impacted services are back online. OpenAI's AI-powered ChatGPT large language model-based chatbot is down because of a major ongoing outage that also took down the company's Application Programming Interface.
OpenAI's AI-powered ChatGPT large language model-based chatbot is down because of a major ongoing outage that also took down the company's Application Programming Interface. Today's issues follow another partial outage on Tuesday that also impacted the company's API and ChatGPT, both hit by periodic outages for several hours.
During its inaugural developer conference, OpenAI unveiled GPTs, short for Generative Pre-trained Transformers. In a recent blog post, OpenAI shed light on the ability to extend the built-in features of GPTs by incorporating custom actions through API integration.
ChatGPT has transformed the way businesses generate textual content, which can potentially result in a quantum leap in productivity. However, Generative AI innovation also introduces a new...
FraudGPT is the evil counterpart to ChatGPT. Criminals use it to target businesses with phishing emails and scams with speed and accuracy like never before. The AI can be prompted to create the most realistic phishing emails, perfected down to a business' tone and artistic style, and encourage victims to hand over sensitive information, such as bank information or corporate login details.
ChatGPT has attracted hundreds of millions of users and was initially praised for its transformative potential. Concerns for safety controls and unpredictability have landed it on IT leaders' list of apps to ban in the workplace.
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