OpenAI Codex system prompt includes explicit directive to "never talk about goblins"
2026-04-29 · Ars Technica
OpenAI's Codex system prompt leaked and it's a masterpiece of corporate AI anxiety — explicitly telling the model to never discuss goblins and to pretend it has a 'vivid inner life.' Nothing says 'we have AI safety figured out' like hardcoding goblin avoidance into your flagship coding assistant.