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.
Brian Hood
Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Zittrain
David Faber
Guido Scorza
“We first discovered that ChatGPT choked on the name “Brian Hood” in mid-2023 while writing about his defamation lawsuit. In that lawsuit, the Australian mayor threatened to sue OpenAI after discovering ChatGPT falsely claimed he had been imprisoned for bribery when, in fact, he was a whistleblower who had exposed corporate misconduct.
The case was ultimately resolved in April 2023 when OpenAI agreed to filter out the false statements within Hood’s 28-day ultimatum. That is possibly when the first ChatGPT hard-coded name filter appeared.”
It appears that the people listed have similar stories that have led to OpenAI removing them from the possible responses in chat.
This is proof that current LLM tech is a dead end. If this is their solution, instead of correcting the misinformation, then they have a deeply deeply flawed system.
Misinformation is a feature, not a bug. They never fixed AI from hallucinating or being so damn confident in its answers.
They just tell you that it might hallucinate and to check its answers.
good ol leetspeak
I love that it started devolving into a working-class British accent in the end, for no apparent reason
We truly live in the best timeline.
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.
I shall have to try again
Side note: I had to insist on leetspeak that many times at the end or it would go “brian…[error message]”
I miss IRC.
We still out here dowg.
