.... the popular chatbot was indeed behaving very strangely. On the ChatGPT forum on Reddit, a user posted a strange, rambling response from the chatbot to the question, "What is a computer?"
The response began: "It does this as the good work of a web of art for the country, a mouse of science, an easy draw of a sad few..." and just kept on going, getting increasingly surreal. [...] Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence pundit, wrote in his blog: "ChatGPT has gone berserk" and went on to describe the behavior as "a warning." [...] Seven minutes after first admitting a problem, OpenAI said, "The issue has been identified and is being remediated now," and it has since been monitoring the situation.
Read the full article; in some ways, OpenAI's postmortem is even more frightening.
MaJoC's €0.02: I conjecture that OpenAI's bugfix was that they found and severed the feed from TrumpBot.