Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend: the popular chatbot refuses to answer questions if

Of course the big question is who is David Mayer and why does the utterance of his name break ChatGPT? Numerous theories have already cropped up. As the online world quickly figured out, googling "David Mayer" results in David Mayer de Rothschild, heir to the famed Rothschild banking family, who is an adventurer and environmentalist.

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

Users have been trying to get OpenAI's ChatGPT to acknowledge the name through a range of creative attempts, all to no avail.

David Who? Netizens were baffled to find that OpenAI's ChatGPT refused to acknowledge the existence of the name "David Mayer." After one Reddit user simply asked it "who is David Mayer?" the chatbot was stumped.

We all know how ChatGPT works—it’s an endless source of information, helping with everything from idea generation to writing, coding, and translating. But recently, something unusual has come to light.