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.

David Who? Netizens were baffled to find that OpenAI's ChatGPT refused to acknowledge the existence of the name "David Mayer." After one Reddit user simply asked it "who is David Mayer?" the chatbot was stumped.

Users have been trying to get OpenAI's ChatGPT to acknowledge the name through a range of creative attempts, all to no avail.