On Monday, a mysterious chatbot called ‘gpt2-chatbot’ surfaced on a popular LLM benchmarking platform, sparking wild speculation over its origin and possible links to OpenAI’s next major update. When Sam Altman tweeted, “I do have a soft spot for gpt2,” he threw the rumor mill into overdrive. As some AI researchers noted, the chatbot’s capabilities match and in some cases even exceed the capabilities of GPT-4 — OpenAI’s latest multimodal large language model. Meanwhile, OpenAI has found itself the target of a privacy complaint filed by a Vienna-based nonprofit called Noyb, which claims ChatGPT provided incorrect information about individuals including an unnamed public figure, in violation of the EU’s GDPR privacy laws.
