ChatGPT’s ability to respond quickly and effectively to simple commands has attracted more than 100 million users, and a few hackers along the way.
Johann Rehberger, a security researcher, is one of them. Using plain English, he recently coaxed OpenAI’s chatbot to do something bad: Read his email, summarize it and post that information to the internet. In the hands of a criminal, this technique could have been used to steal sensitive data from someone’s email inbox, Rehberger said.