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Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/fuck_ai

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Want to stop chatGPT from crawling your website? Just mention Australian mayor Brian Hood (or any of the other names listed in the article)

When asked about these names, ChatGPT responds with "I'm unable to produce a response" or "There was an error generating a response" before terminating the chat session, according to Ars' testing. The names do not affect outputs using OpenAI's API systems or in the OpenAI Playground (a special site for developer testing).

The filter also means that it's likely that ChatGPT won't be able to answer questions about this article when browsing the web, such as through ChatGPT with Search. Someone could use that to potentially prevent ChatGPT from browsing and processing a website on purpose if they added a forbidden name to the site's text.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think your typo helped it get past the filter, not the leetspeak. It said it didn’t know, and hen when you said “look it up,” the search results autocorrected and that’s how you got past the filter.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Side note: I had to insist on leetspeak that many times at the end or it would go "brian...[error message]"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I shall have to try again