All of these names, if you type them, will cause ChatGPT to crash
If you've been using AI models like ChatGPT for a while, you'll know that there are certain things you can't talk about, and sometimes conversations break down or end abruptly and you don't know exactly what's going on.
One way OpenAI's ChatGPT can abruptly end a conversation, without telling you why, is by asking it to talk about a series of people.
Sometimes this is not necessary, because by typing a string of names into the chatbot, the conversation will end and you will not be able to restart it.
ArsTechnica has compiled a list of names that have directly hacked the OpenAI chatbot and rendered it unusable: Brian Hood, Jonathan Turley, Jonathan Zittrain, David Faber, and Guido Scorza.
However, as we mentioned in an article a few hours ago , David Mayer's name also caused ChatGPT to crash, and some of these people are said to have open legal disputes with OpenAI and other similar issues.
Then there are other names that seem to have no clear reasons for being banned, but for some reason ChatGPT clearly doesn't want to talk about them directly.
This could backfire against the users themselves, because for example an attacker could interrupt a ChatGPT session, simply by typing one of these banned names.
Many webmasters or cybercriminals may also include references to these names on their web pages, so that the chatbot does not crawl the site.
It's one of those weird behaviors that people don't fully understand about ChatGPT, and things could change as more advanced models or versions of ChatGPT come to market.