ChatGPT’s latest model o1 – or Strawberry as it was codenamed – has begun rolling out and it promises to make the chatbot AI more human-like than ever. That includes the ability to better understand natural language, but few people expected ChatGPT to be able to message you first. For a brief time it seemingly could, though that was apparently a bug rather than a hint at a new upgrade.
Several users reported on social media that ChatGPT had started a conversation with them; in one such example from Reddit ChatGPT asked the user how their first week at high school went; when it was asked if it messaged first, the Open AI bot proudly responded “yes”, later expanding that it can now initiate a conversation to follow up on things it has previously discussed. Another user claimed in the comments that the AI asked them about health symptoms they had previously discussed with it.
