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

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.

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.