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

In the most meta part of the response, ChatGPT concludes, "The exact cause of ChatGPT's difficulty with the name 'David Mayer' remains unclear, leading to various theories and discussions among users," citing Mashable's story, which first reported the issue, as the reason why the mystery is yet unsolved.

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

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

But users discovered that ChatGPT could talk about "David de Rothschild," and notable figures with the last name "Mayer" and the first name starting with "D," but would crash once

ChatGPT isn't new to glitches. From struggling with sarcasm to getting dates wrong, and making false claims, ChatGPT has done it all. OpenAI calls them growing pains—problems that occur as the system learns from a huge dataset.

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.

In the case of Brian Hood, the Mayor of Hepburn Shire Council in Victoria, Australia, Hood previously made headlines for suing OpenAI over ChatGPT results that suggested that he was involved in bribery in Southeast Asia, despite being the whistleblower who had previously alerted the media and authorities to the wrongdoing.

Social media users have reported, and Newsweek has confirmed, that ChatGPT appears to be restricted from saying some names, including the name "David Mayer." The chatbot, which was developed by OpenAI,