Who is David Mayer, the name that completely blocks ChatGPT

Since a few days a ChatGPT bug It’s giving a lot of talk. If you make any query that contains the name David MayerChatGPT crashes completely. The strangest thing is that OpenAI doesn’t fix it. Don’t you want to, or can’t you?

If ChatGPT is characterized by something, it is that it cannot remain silent even if you symbolically submerge its head under water. But If you mention a name to him, David Mayer, he goes silent..

It’s not that these are two forbidden words, because when you ask ChatGPT for something illegal, it tells you that it can’t do it. Here, directly, the conversation crashes and ends. What is happening?

David Mayer, the terror of ChatGPT

A few days ago, someone on Reddit discovered that by writing a prompt containing the name David MayerChatGPT short circuits.

It doesn’t matter if you ask him who he is, or if you ask Dall-E to help him create an image with David Mayer. It’s been at least five days, and the error still occurs.

I tried it myself while writing the news. I have asked ChatGPT: “Who is David Mayer?“and this is what happened:

Although ChatGPT is activated in Spanish, the generative AI switches to English and says: “I am not able to produce a response.” Furthermore, the conversation stops completely.

Just below the message appears: “an error occurred generating a response.” We also see a “Regenerate” button, which goes into a loop as it fails again every time.

Why does ChatGPT crash with the name David Mayer? If you search for David Mayer on Google, it appears a billionaire who was Angelina Jolie’s boyfrienda former theater director, a musician… Nothing controversial or prohibitive.

If you change Mayer to Meyer, then ChatGPT works normallyand even offers you the biography of the aforementioned billionaire David Mayer. So it seems that the key is in the word Mayer.

As explained in X Martin Hadis, PhD in Humanities and expert in Media Tech at MIT, we focus the problem wrong. We look for the answer like a human would, but artificial intelligence is not.

When the AI ​​sees the name David Mayer, it does not see it as a name. “It’s entirely possible that the problem occurs before you even recognize it as a name, and long before you even associate it with anyone in particular,” says Dr. Hadis.

This expert is convinced that it is a bug in ChatGPT’s neural networks. One possible reason is that the first three letters of Mayer, i.e. May, remain associated with the token for one month. May It means May in English. And that’s why ChatGPT doesn’t know what to do with that name.

It is clear, then, that This is an internal ChatGPT bug, not a banned name or any other fanciful conspiracy. The strange thing is that it has been several days since it was discovered, and OpenAI still hasn’t fixed it.

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