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