I told ChatGPT to ‘continue’ — it went too far

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Nature / Science / Nature Biotechnology at 12 Oct, 00:00 UTC

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.