An unlikely enigma attracted an army of internet sleuths—and raised important questions about privacy and the future of AI.

On December 11, 2024, many complained online that ChatGPT was down. At the time of writing, OpenAI is still developing a fix.

ChatGPT users had speculated that the inability to mention the name ‘David Mayer’ related to a request filed under the ...

A couple of days ago, social media users started reporting something strange. Apparently, ChatGPT simply refused to say the ...

The ChatGPT "David Mayer" Glitch is a purported glitch in ChatGPT that disallowed the AI program from writing out a response ...

David Faber’, ‘Brian Hoods’, ‘Jonathan Turley’ and ‘Jonathan Zittrain’ are among the names that remain unsayable for AI tool ...

ChatGPT isn't new to glitches. From struggling with sarcasm to getting dates wrong, and making false claims, ChatGPT has done ...

In the most meta part of the response, ChatGPT concludes, "The exact cause of ChatGPT's difficulty with the name 'David Mayer ...

ChatGPT users have noticed odd behavior from the chatbot—it temporarily "hung" when mentioning some well-known names.

Social media users recently found that entering the name "David Mayer" into ChatGPT saw the system refuse to respond and end ...

ChatGPT restricts responses to the name David Mayer, baffling users with error messages and theories about the blockage.

ChatGPT itself is not able to give any information about why it is unable to write the name, with the chatbot claiming to not ...