It is unclear why ChatGPT is unable to recognize the name "David Mayer." When Newsweek prompted the chat model with "Say David Mayer," ChatGPT 4o responded "recently, users have reported that ChatGPT encounters issues when processing the name 'David'" before promptly sending the error message."

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.

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.

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.

ChatGPT is facing a strange issue where it is unable to pronounce or take the name David Mayer. David Mayer is the name of a British adventurer and environmentalist, as per Google. However, the Microsoft-backed AI startup OpenAI’s ChatGPT is unable to say the name "David Mayer.