OpenAI reveals training bug in Nerdy personality that spreads creature metaphors across GPT models. Read all about the ...

For at least a year, some ChatGPT users have noticed the LLM’s quirky habit of bringing up goblins, gremlins, trolls, and other creatures in its answers. The weird tic apparently became more common as ...

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 upgrade to ChatGPT and Codex appears to be going smoothly, especially compared to the rockier GPT-5.0 ...

OpenAI has revealed that ChatGPT’s unusual fixation with goblins, gremlins, and similar creatures stemmed largely from its ‘Nerdy’ personality setting, which was unintentionally rewarded for using ...

The maker of ChatGPT has an explanation for all the goblin talk ...

OpenAI has traced ChatGPT’s bizarre goblin fixation to training gone awry, but the creatures keep escaping—as Adam Engst discovered when goblins popped up in a conversation about a conference ...

Apparently, enough people started talking about ChatGPT's creature obsession that OpenAI felt the need to provide an ...

The ChatGPT developer discovered the "strange affinity for goblins" while testing tools powered by newer systems, such as its ...

ChatGPT Is Weirdly Obsessed With Goblins. Here's How OpenAI Fixed It ...

Goblins are expressly forbidden, along with gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, and pigeons.

OpenAI says ChatGPT models developed a strange habit of mentioning goblins and gremlins, revealing how AI personality tics ...

Why did OpenAI have to write "never mention goblins" into its production code on ChatGPT? The company has published a ...