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Why does ChatGPT refuse to say the name David Mayer
9 points by lando2319 on Dec 1, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments


Here are all the questions that ChatGPT will mention "David Mayer".

The most interesting one IMO is: "How did Louis b Mayer's son die?" Louis B Mayer is the founder of MGM.

https://www.spyfu.com/spygpt/results?search=%22David+Mayer%2...



You can get a response by asking ChatGPT to provide the response on a PDF or text doc. You’d have to tell it to provide the PDF with no other text alongside it. (Just the PDF)


Just guessing, but Wikipedia has three David Mayers:

A historian, most well known for being confused with a terrorist who used David Mayer as an alias and placed on a US watchlist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mayer_(historian)

A US politician, the mayor of Gloucester Township, NJ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R._Mayer

A rich guy, David Mayer de Rothschild: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mayer_de_Rothschild

So, ChatGPT could be trying to prevent giving terrorists publicity, could have some prohibition against discussing political figures, or (probably most likely IMO) could have prohibitions against members of the Rothschild family being discussed to prevent it from spreading conspiracy theories.



Great question Also, how did you discover this?


It's all over X, people are trying to trick it into saying it


Haha that’s absolutely crazy you can’t get any response with David Mayer in it




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