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Why does the name ‘David Mayer’ crash ChatGPT? OpenAI says privacy tool went rogue


Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend: the popular chatbot refuses to answer questions if

But a potential thread of connection identified by ChatGPT users is that these people are public or semi-public figures who may prefer to have certain information “forgotten” by search engines or AI models. For years before that, however, the British American academic faced a legal and online issue of having his name associated with a wanted criminal who used it as a pseudonym, to the point where he was unable to travel. What likely happened is that one of these lists, which are almost certainly actively maintained or automatically updated, was somehow corrupted with faulty code or instructions that, when called, caused the chat agent to immediately break.

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