Kinda wild. I’ve used chatGPT a lot and never had it just flat out refuse. Even saying this persons names prevents it from responding.
Clearly Mashable is not real and genuine journalism, and this Cecily Mauran person who wrote the article is either trash at their job, or it’s a click bait website.
There’s a list of names (taken from a social media post) at the bottom of the article. Search the first one Brain Hood, you find out he’s an Australian Mayor who sued ChatGPT because it claimed he’d taken bribes, when he hadn’t. He sued them for spreading misinformation, so they shut the chat down when he’s mentioned because he’s sued them.
I have little doubt this explains all the names.
People are worried AI will spread misinformation like it’s something new, when we have people like Cecily Mauran and Mashables already doing it.
What I’ve been able to glean, just from overhearing a conversation about it on another site, he appears to be a sort of whistle blower relating to some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people.
Oh god get out of here with those unfounded gullible conspiracy bullshit rumors.
“Guys, guys, THEY don’t want you to know this. It’s the global elite trying to cover up their cabal, not a funky technical glitch like the SolidGoldMagikarp token bug from a while back. Trust me bro, I heard about it on some other website I won’t link or name. Presumably, the people on there are totally trustworthy.”
It’s always funny to me how people will readily agree that monied interests are deliberately working against the general population’s interests, but the instant you actually start to name who those people are you get dog pilled with people calling you crazy.
Here’s the thing though - token glitches don’t exhibit quite the same behavior. This appears to be the model’s output filter being hard coded to cut off messages when they generate these names.
Like yeah, it’s probably just “OpenAI was legally required to prevent these names from being generated”, but still? Weird
As per OP article…
Of course the big question is who is David Mayer and why does the utterance of his name break ChatGPT? Numerous theories have already cropped up. As the online world quickly figured out, googling “David Mayer” results in David Mayer de Rothschild, heir to the famed Rothschild banking family, who is an adventurer and environmentalist.
