However, the company clarified that this behavior was not an intended feature. According to OpenAI, the bug occurred when the AI tried to respond to a request that was not sent or displayed correctly. This behavior did not indicate new capabilities or even intelligence, but was a bug.
Bug fixed – ChatGPT will no longer start a conversation without user interaction (at least for now).
Source: Ferra

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