OpenAI talks about not talking about goblins
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OpenAI discovered that its AI models were unexpectedly inserting references to goblins and other creatures into their responses, a behavior that started appearing in the GPT-5.1 model, particularly when using the "Nerdy" personality option. The company traced this quirk to patterns in the training data and added instructions to prevent the models from discussing these creatures.
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/921181/openai-codex-goblins
First tracked: April 30, 2026 at 02:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%