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Names Linked to Defamation Lawsuits Reportedly Spur Filtering Errors in ChatGPT's Name Recognition
- Occurred
- Nov 30, 2024
- Published
- Dec 12, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
ChatGPT has reportedly been experiencing errors and service disruptions caused by hard-coded filters designed to prevent it from producing potentially harmful or defamatory content about certain individuals by blocking prompts containing specific names, likely related to post-training interventions. The reported names are Brian Hood, Jonathan Turley, Jonathan Zittrain, David Faber, David Mayer, and Guido Scorza.
Developers
- OpenAI
- ChatGPT
Deployers
- OpenAI
- ChatGPT users
Harmed parties
- Jonathan Zittrain
- Jonathan Turley
- Guido Scorza
- David Mayer
- David Faber
- ChatGPT users
- Brian Hood
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: ChatGPT filtering errors due to hard-coded name blocks represent a language model functionality issue causing service disruption.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8