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

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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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty much. Aren’t LLMs just massive probability tables for the most appropriate next token?

[–] kogasa 4 points 2 weeks ago

Well yeah but that's not the problem. You can evidently encode sophisticated models and logic in those billions of parameters. It's just that determining and modifying what has been encoded is impossible.