Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02714-y
An ambiguous instruction caused the chatbot to send three e-mails from Ying Zhao’s connected account. The incident advanced Zhao’s project, but showed that chatbots need limits.I told ChatGPT to ‘continue’ — it went too far
Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02714-yAn ambiguous instruction caused the chatbot to send three e-mails from Ying Zhao’s connected account. The incident advanced Zhao’s project, but showed that chatbo…