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

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. An AI trained to sound "nerdy" is going to talk about goblins a lot. Artificial (goblin) intelligence is done, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joked. ChatGPT is weirdly obsessed with goblins. No, seriously. It really, really likes goblins, gremlins and other mythological creatures. It liked them so much that its maker, OpenAI, had to investigate and fix an error that had the popular chatbot using goblins in its answers out of the blue. Goblin isn’t a computer science term. We are literally talking about goblins, those ugly mythological creatures. Those creepy little guys from The Lord of the Rings. Norman Osborn’s alter ego. In a blog post that the author clearly had fun writing, OpenAI said: “A single ‘little goblin’ in an answer could be harmless, even charming. Across model generations, though, the habit became hard to miss: the goblins kept multiplying.” The goblin love was noticeable with ChatGPT-5.1 a