Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend: the popular chatbot refuses to answer questions if

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

In the case of Brian Hood, the Mayor of Hepburn Shire Council in Victoria, Australia, Hood previously made headlines for suing OpenAI over ChatGPT results that suggested that he was involved in bribery in Southeast Asia, despite being the whistleblower who had previously alerted the media and authorities to the wrongdoing.