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

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 136 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

good ol leetspeak

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

We truly live in the best timeline.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

I shall have to try again

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I miss IRC.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

We still out here dowg.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love that it started devolving into a working-class British accent in the end, for no apparent reason

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

It's still a text predictor. Your average corporate representative isn't going to use leetspeak, and so the probable next set of words won't be as similar.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

His name is Brian Hood not Brain Hood, or am I missing the joke, in that case whoosh I guess

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe it was a way to get the engine to say it doesn’t know “brain” hood, and when they asked it to look it up, their hits autocorrected to “Brian,” and that’s how they got the information past the filter. Which would be incredibly clever, and it’s I believe how it actually got past it, not the leetspeak.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nop, it's the leetspeak. That trick has worked great for me, I don't know why chatgpt hasn't patched it yet. Google figured that out back when their servers held 40gb and were build out of legos

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I posted another example above using leetspeak to bypass it, pretty silly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Whoops, typo. It blocked the non-leetspeak variant I typed either way. And was able to find info about it to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

The old ways live again.