#Goblins

The company reportedly had to tell ChatGPT to quit bringing up goblins, gremlins, and trolls unless absolutely necessary.

The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI "recently gave its popular ChatGPT strict instructions. Stop talking about goblins." Recent models of the artificial-intelligence chatbot have been bringing up the creatures in conversations with users seemingly…

From Pcgamer RSS Feed: After days of speculation over hard-coded anti-goblin bias from OpenAI, the company had to release an official memo on 'Where the goblins came from'

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

From Gizmodo: ‘The Goblins Came Back to Haunt Us’: OpenAI Explains How ChatGPT’s ‘Nerdy’ Personality Got Out of Control

From Engadget: ChatGPT developed a goblin obsession after OpenAI tried to make it nerdy

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The system prompt for OpenAI's Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to "never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other…

Yesterday, it was noted that OpenAI had provided its Codex coding agent with a peculiar instruction: "Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures…

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

From Pcgamer RSS Feed: 'Where the goblins came from': OpenAI's strange but not entirely surprising story of little critters infesting ChatGPT's output

GPT-5.5’s odd obsession with goblins, gremlins, trolls, and other fantasy creatures stems from the AI model’s ‘Nerdy’ personality mode, OpenAI has found.

How goblin outputs spread in AI models: timeline, root cause, and fixes behind personality-driven quirks in GPT-5 behavior.

From Ars Technica: OpenAI Codex system prompt includes explicit directive to "never talk about goblins"

OpenAI included a line in Codex's instructions restricting references to goblins, gremlins, trolls, and ogres, and even Sam Altman joined the memes.

“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI’s coding agent instructions.