Pressing the J key crashes ChatGPT in a very AI-era bug story
debreuil · x · 2026-07-27
The poster says they eventually traced a mysterious issue where pressing the J key would close ChatGPT to clearing keyboard shortcuts inside ChatGPT, even though they had never set any shortcuts and the app did not show the J key there.
They joke that we may need to get used to “things going bump in the night” when AI is running our machines, turning a mundane bug into a small AI-era horror story.
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