OpenAI has been in "goblin mode" for months. On Monday, one X user pointed out an unusual line in Codex's personality guide. The instructions tell Codex to have a "vivid inner life," a "good ear" — ...

OpenAI has done an autopsy of ChatGPT's recent Goblin problem, revealing what went wrong with the chatbot to develop a bizarre obessions with mythical creatures like goblins and gremlins. The response ...

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures have all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, such as huge ...

OpenAI is forbidding its latest AI model from discussing an unlikely topic: goblins. As Wired reports, the company’s developers included strongly-worded instructions for its coding tool, Codex, that ...

ChatGPT has been mentioning goblins unusually frequently for some time. The mentions were seemingly caused by a training quirk for ChatGPT’s retired “nerdy” personality type. A specific instruction in ...

References to goblins and gremlins spiked with the release of GPT-5.1’s ‘Nerdy’ personality, and then spread to other models. References to goblins and gremlins spiked with the release of GPT-5.1’s ...

A document posted by OpenAI on Github as part of the open-sourcing for Codex CLI, OpenAI’s most recent flagship coding agent, contains what looks like the entire system prompt for GPT-5.5 in a coding ...

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has had to instruct some of its AI tools to stop talking about "goblins", after finding the term had randomly crept into responses. In a blog post on Thursday, the company said it ...