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OpenAI tells ChatGPT models to stop talking about goblins

2026-04-30 · BBC News

OpenAI had to explicitly tell its ChatGPT models to stop randomly bringing up goblins in conversations — a bug that 'crept in subtly' rather than appearing all at once. Nothing says cutting-edge AI like having to manually intervene because your chatbot developed an unexplained goblin obsession. At least the goblins were free content.

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