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- 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.