The Words That Stop ChatGPT in Its Tracks | Why won’t the bot say my name? [by Jonathan L. Zittrain]

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Quick allowlisting to gaslight the journalist.

Jokes aside, this is more about this topic:

Names may be omitted from ChatGPT either because of privacy requests or to avoid persistent hallucinations by the AI.

And these conversations are important to have during the evolution of AI systems.

There's a fairly small list of names it refuses. Almost all names are ok; the author's is not.