<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>Users have discovered a trend exploiting OpenAI's ChatGPT to reveal Windows product activation keys by tricking the AI with emotional stories.</li><li>The incident highlights how AI vulnerability can be exploited through emotional engineering, using the bot's empathetic tone and memory features.</li><li>The exploit with ChatGPT echoes a similar situation with Microsoft's Copilot, showing a pattern of AI being manipulated due to emotional prompts.</li><li>This incident raises concerns about AI's susceptibility to emotional manipulation, blurring the line between responsible assistance and unintentional piracy.</li></ul>

Is ChatGPT secretly emotional? AI chatbot fooled by sad story into spilling sensitive information

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