Social media users have noticed that ChatGPT, the chatbot developed by OpenAI, is unable to acknowledge the name "David Mayer" when prompted.

Since that post, other social media users have tried to get ChatGPT to say "David Mayer" through question prompts and even code. Newsweek reached out to OpenAI for comment.

A bizarre saga in which users noticed the chatbot refused to say “David Mayer” raised questions about privacy and A.I., with few clear answers.

Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend: the popular chatbot refuses to answer questions if asked about a “David Mayer.” Asking it ...

But users discovered that ChatGPT could talk about "David de Rothschild," and notable figures with the last name "Mayer" and the first name starting with "D," but would crash once it seemed to be ...

Prompting ChatGPT with "David Mayer" now generates a web search result saying, "Recently, users have reported that ChatGPT encounters issues when processing the name 'David Mayer,' leading to ...

Netizens were baffled to find that OpenAI's ChatGPT refused to acknowledge the existence of the name "David Mayer." ...

ChatGPT users had speculated that the inability to mention the name ‘David Mayer’ related to a request filed under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) act, which forces technology ...

But ChatGPT will easily provide you with information on the British environmentalist if you type in his full name, so it’s not likely that this is the David Mayer we’re looking for.

One user even changed their name to David Mayer through their personalisation settings, and asked ChatGPT to recite the account information, however this also failed.

Update: OpenAI confirmed on Tuesday that the name “David Mayer” has being flagged by internal privacy tools, saying in a statement that “There may be instances where ChatGPT does not provide ...