The name "David Mayer" caused a lot of buzz on the Internet over the weekend, because ChatGPT There was a strange glitch where no matter how hard users tried, they couldn't get the chatbot to say the name. Instead, ChatGPT would either get stuck in the middle of a sentence, claiming that there was "a problem," or simply refuse to respond. This prompted the question: Who is David Mayer? Why does ChatGPT "avoid" talking about him?
The mystery is getting bigger and bigger, with speculation running the gamut on the Internet. Some think Mayer may be just an ordinary guy who exercised the "right to be forgotten," a British and European Union law that allows people to delete their personal data online. Others suspect he may be a powerful man, perhaps even from the famous Rothschild family. But David Mayer de Rothschild himself has personally debunked the rumors, calling them unfounded.
Good thing it's the developers of ChatGPT! OpenAI The facts have now been clarified, explaining that the issue did not stem from GDPR regulations or individual requests, but was simply a "glitch".It was caused by an internal tool that incorrectly labeled Mayer's name.
ChatGPT's "glitches" are not rare, and OpenAI has always regarded these problems as "growing pains" in the learning process of AI models, and has been working hard to improve them. However, fixing one problem often introduces new ones.
1AI notes that similar "flops" are common in other AI tools. For example, Google's AI search recommended applying glue to pizza as a cooking technique.