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 ...

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

ChatGPT is obsessed with goblins – and it could be a problem - Strange bug with popular chatbot highlights underlying issues with AI ...

If OpenAI can accidentally train its flagship model to obsess over goblins, what other more subtle and potentially harmful ...

I know a lot of nerds and they don't talk about goblins that much.

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

OpenAI has explained that a reinforcement learning bias in its 'Nerdy' personality mode caused ChatGPT to repeatedly reference goblins, gremlins and other creatures, even in unrelated contexts. The ...

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

OpenAI has resolved a peculiar bug in ChatGPT that caused a surge in references to goblins, gremlins, and similar creatures across unrelated conversations. The issue, traced to reinforcement learning ...

DeepSeek-R1's release last Monday has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. Matching OpenAI’s o1 at just 3%-5% ...