ChatGPT’s refusal to acknowledge ‘David Mayer’ down to glitch, says OpenAI

Name was mistakenly flagged and prevented from appearing in responses, says chatbot’s developer

Last weekend the name was all over the internet – just not on ChatGPT.

David Mayer became famous for a moment on social media because the popular chatbot appeared to want nothing to do with him.

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