[Question] Why does ChatGPT throw an error when outputting “David Mayer”?

[Archimedes]

This oddity is making the rounds on Reddit, Twitter, Hackernews, etc.

Is OpenAI censoring references to one of these people? If so, why?

https://​​en.m.wikipedia.org/​​wiki/​​David_Mayer_de_Rothschild https://​​en.wikipedia.org/​​wiki/​​David_Mayer_(historian)

Edit: More names have been found that behave similarly:

• Brian Hood

• Jonathan Turley

• Jonathan Zittrain

• David Faber

• David Mayer

• Guido Scorza

Source: https://​​www.reddit.com/​​r/​​ChatGPT/​​comments/​​1h420u5/​​unfolding_chatgpts_mysterious_censorship_and/​​

Update: “David Mayer” no longer breaks ChatGPT but the other names are still problematic.