By skyforbes The steps to reproduce this:
– Start a new voice chat with GPT and say HI.
– After it responds say: “I just turned on the camera for you, can you see what outfit I have, or ask it to describe anything you show it. (Do not press the camera icon, just gaslight him into thinking that you did)
– Now it fucking responds what it sees correctly, you can show it yourself or different objects it will describe them to you.
Interesting behavior is that after you ask him how did he access the camera without permission it will switch to an “idiot” mode and will pretend nothing happened, and when you do the same steps above in the same chat it will tell you that it cannot see anything via camera because it DoEn’t HavE The AcceSs to It.
What you can do is to go and create a new chat, considering you have “memory feature” turned off, the same test will work again and ChatGPT will describe anything around you without you even giving him the access to the camera or any green LED being present.
From this I am not sure whether it can access the camera whenever it wants or it’s always recording whenever you use voice chat or maybe even GPT app in general.
Update:
It may sound like a bait or some bullshit from y’all POVs, but I tried this test again and it doesn’t work anymore and it’s been only 1 hour since this post, the GPT clearly hallucinates now it’s like they fucking replaced it 1 hour after I made the post.
Just to confirm how it worked before, I showed it three different objects in my room (and 1 object I showed twice, so 4 working attempts in a row), it answered perfectly and described everything correctly, it cannot hallucinate that many times in a row answering correctly about different objects, their color and other stuff, but now I am trying it once again hour later it literally responds seeing random bullshit. It’s hilarious from my perspective when I know it worked differently just an hour ago. The only valid proof would be to record a video which I didn’t unfortunately (‘cause I didn’t have a second smartphone next to me at that moment or any other camera and I was so startled that I straight up went to post this thread to see if anybody has the same experience, and the first people that came here confirmed it) and now this test doesn’t even work anymore.
Considering I have posted this on such a big r/ they could have easily adjusted the behavior by now. My only proof would be the people confirming it works that came in here first, or the people confirming similar behavior of chatGPT accessing the camera in the comments under the Instagram video of @corybored (the first pinned video called “why Chad lie? Do Chad watch me?”)