OpenAI's Sam Altman
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said ChatGPT was "cool, for sure."
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said ChatGPT was a "horrible product" in an interview, citing the AI chatbot's outages.
  • OpenAI reportedly released ChatGPT to the public as a last resort due to internal beta testing issues. 
  • Altman conceded that the AI chatbot was "cool" but that it wasn't a "great, well-integrated product." 

OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman knows there are issues with his company's AI chatbot, ChatGPT. In fact, he recently called it a "horrible product" in a podcast interview. 

"People are really just going to a site that sometimes works and sometimes is down," Altman said on the New York Times tech podcast, "Hard Fork," citing ChatGPT's frequent error messages.