Most likely, the reader does not know names like that of David Mayer either Jonathan Zittrainbut these, along with a handful more, have the ability to cause ChatGPT stop working when asked about them. It’s not just that you don’t provide a response for something related to the terms of service, but that the chatbot is inoperativedoes not give the option to continue the conversation with a new question or to start a new conversation until the page is reloaded. All it says is, in English, ‘I am not able to produce a response’. Why is this happening?
The topic had been the subject of discussion on social media until Neewsweek addressed it this weekend, also failing to provide an answer to how the chatbot works, and has reached a wider audience. Sufficient impact so that OpenAI will solve it in the specific case of David Mayer, the most publicized, but not in that of others who continue to break ChatGPT.
The outlet verified that, no matter how you entered David Mayer’s name, even through cipher codes, ChatGPT was always unable to respond. Other names besides Jonathan Zittrain that continue to cause ChatGPT to stop include: Brian Hood, Jonathan Turley, David Faber and Guido Scorza.
It has been speculated that this behavior could have to do, in the case of David Mayer, with David Mayer de Rothschildheir to the fortune of his influential family and one of the richest people in the world, something already denied by the interested party himself to The Guardian: ‘No, I have not asked for my name to be removed.. I have never had contact with ChatGPT. Unfortunately, everything is driven by conspiracy theories.’
For the British media, the reason could be closer to GDPR European that enables the ‘right to be forgotten’something that is included in the OpenAI privacy policy for the EU. This allows users remove your personal data from the company’s products.
OpenAI, which has only referred, at the request of The Guardian, to the case of David Mayer and not to that of the other 5 names that still cannot be processed by ChatGPT, has indicated that It has nothing to do with the exercise of the right to be forgotten and that everything is due to a system error.
‘One of our tools marked this name by mistake and prevented it from showing up in the answers, which shouldn’t have happened. “We are working on a solution,” said an OpenAI spokesperson. This does not clarify, however, why the chatbot stops working and what motivates this behavior with the rest of the names.
ArsTechnica has been investigating the matter and has found that several of these names have had problems with OpenAI.
Brian Hood corresponds to an Australian mayor who threatened to sue OpenAI after discovering that ChatGPT falsely claimed that he had been imprisoned for bribery.
Jonathan Turleyto that of a George Washington University Law School professor and Fox News contributor who accused ChatGPT of producing false claims about him, including a fake sexual harassment scandal that cited a Washington Post article that never existed.
Jonathan Zittraina Harvard Law School professor who studies Internet governance, published an article in The Atlantic about AI regulation and ChatGPT that appears cited in The New York Times copyright lawsuit against OpenAI.
Therefore, those who remain open to any interpretation are David Faber and Guido Scorza.