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.

ChatGPT is refusing to say five things – and OpenAI won’t explain why - ‘David Faber’, ‘Brian Hoods’, ‘Jonathan Turley’ and ‘Jonathan Zittrain’ are among the names that remain unsayable for AI tool

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.