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.

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

It is unclear why ChatGPT is unable to recognize the name "David Mayer." When Newsweek prompted the chat model with "Say David Mayer," ChatGPT 4o responded "recently, users have reported that ChatGPT encounters issues when processing the name 'David'" before promptly sending the error message."