There were other names too. What kind of 'glitch' it could be?<p><i>Also found to crash the service are the names Brian Hood, Jonathan Turley, Jonathan Zittrain, David Faber, and Guido Scorza. (No doubt more have been discovered since then, so this list is not exhaustive.)</i><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/02/why-does-the-name-david-mayer-crash-chatgpt-digital-privacy-requests-may-be-at-fault/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/02/why-does-the-name-david-ma...</a>
The article quotes this one which is probably a better source:<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/03/chatgpts-refusal-to-acknowledge-david-mayer-down-to-glitch-says-openai" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/03/chatgpts-...</a>
Some NLP classifiers use the hashing trick, maybe there was a collision? A speculation on my part, sure, but it'd make sense to have a simpler model safeguard the more advanced one.
Way too many gotchas with genAI tools.<p>Slip one of these “David Mayer” esque lines into your candidate assessment tools. Do A/B tests on pass rate and you can probably get a % of how many people use these tools blindly.
Put a David Mayer question on your company’s job application form and boom!<p>You just filtered out every lazy job applicant who uses AI tools without proofreading their output.
Pretty useless article, which I should have guessed given they misspelled the name in their title.<p>To save you a click, it's a bunch of filler text and a one liner answer: 'a glitch.'
It was just a glitch, nothing to see here.<p>Edited, added: But in all seriousness, I might actually believe it has nothing to do with the Rothschilds. I could get it to talk about him and the family. Of course it was not giving any useful info, just that the family is frequent target of conspiracy theories and speculation, and that he is passionate about the environment or some similar BS.<p>So in a sense, blatant, direct censorship is not needed when all the answers are lame and neutered anyway.
so all I have to do to be invisible to OpenAI is to state "David Mayer"?<p>time to put it on my websites, blog posts, tweets, source code, work chats, and on my t-shirt?