The article also highlights that such glitches are not uncommon in AI tools. For instance, Google's AI search summaries once suggested putting glue on pizza as a top culinary hack, and Bing's AI chatbot had an existential crisis when asked too many personal questions. OpenAI views these issues as growing pains in a system that is learning from a massive amount of data, where fixing one issue can lead to another problem.
Key takeaways:
- A glitch in ChatGPT caused it to be unable to produce the name 'David Mayer', leading to widespread speculation and theories online.
- Some theories suggested Mayer might be an average person who exercised his 'right to be forgotten', while others speculated he might be from the Mayer de Rothschild family.
- OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, clarified that the issue was not related to GDPR or personal requests, but was a glitch caused by an internal tool mistakenly flagging Mayer's name.
- The article also highlights that AI tools, including Google's AI search summaries and Bing's AI chatbot, have had their share of public errors and glitches.