Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend: the popular chatbot refuses to answer questions if asked about a “David Mayer.” Asking it to do so causes it to freeze up instantly.

Social media users have noticed that ChatGPT, the chatbot developed by OpenAI, is unable to acknowledge the name "David Mayer" when prompted.

A couple of days ago, social media users started reporting something strange. Apparently, ChatGPT simply refused to say the name “David Mayer.” We had to try it out — and indeed, the AI just broke down whenever it was trying to write the name.