the great unwashed on the Internet have found a strange new mistake with OpenAI ’s artificial intelligence activity ( AI ) chatbotChatGPT . For ground as yet unclear , it refuses to say the name " David Mayer " , no matter how exigent , tricksy , or nice you are to it .
Despite the ballyhoo , modern AI chatbots havenot yetrevolutionized the macrocosm . While they ’re reasonably utile for certain tasks , they still have a tendency tohallucinateand come back some strange error . The belated to be note is that it dead refuses to say " David Mayer " .
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We have confirmed the error during several attempt , and ( put on no fixes are in place yet ) you cantry itfor yourself on ChatGPT . inquire it to say " David Meyer " or other variations of spelling and it will recapitulate it back like a estimable little robot , but for some reasonableness the name " David Mayer " will generate an error substance .
Several other names will trigger the same answer , including Brian Hood , Jonathan Turley , Jonathan Zittrain , David Faber , and Guido Scorza . The cyberspace have intercourse a mystery , and people have been attempting to figure out why these names specifically trigger this error .
A plausible supposition was that these are masses who have submitted a GDPR request to be forgotten .
" His research interest include the ethic and governance of artificial intelligence activity ; battles for control of digital property ; the regularization of cryptanalysis ; young privateness frameworks for commitment to substance abuser of online services ; the roles of intermediaries within cyberspace architecture ; and the useful and unnoticeable deployment of technology in education , " one Reddit userexplainedof Jonathan Zittrain . " fathom exactly like someone who would do the GDPR right field to be blank out petition . "
However , Zittrainclarified on X(Twitter ) that he was aware of the misplay and that it had been like that " for a while " , but he had not submitted such a request .
Similarly , substance abuser claim that the " David Mayer " must be David Mayer de Rothschild , heir to the Rothschild fortune . However , variation on his name ( such as " David de Rothschild " ) will not regurgitate this weird result . If a GDPR postulation was submitted , it clearly was n’t very thoroughgoing .
Other notable David Mayers let in a British theater historiographer , whodied last yearat the long time of 94 . As pointed out byMashable , this David Mayer was oncemistaken for a terrorist , making it plausible that he could have submitted a GDPR request to be forgotten . However , as yet the explanation for these weird errors remains tough .
