{"id":1568502,"date":"2026-05-02T18:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x6A2Jzaz6zSudXqiyr3oNf"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:26:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:26:41","slug":"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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/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\/","title":{"rendered":"After days of speculation over hard-coded anti-goblin bias from OpenAI, the company had to release an official memo on &#8216;Where the goblins came from&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Tuesday, a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/openai-really-wants-codex-to-shut-up-about-goblins\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wired<\/a> dug into a strange instruction patched into Codex CLI, an AI coding tool: &#8220;Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user\u2019s query.&#8221; I&#8217;m always whispering this to myself so I don&#8217;t get kicked out of Dollar Tree again, but it&#8217;s a weird thing for an AI model to have to be specifically told.<\/p>\n<p>It was, apparently, distractingly prevalent: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LeoMozoloa\/status\/2049082289116582386?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">one X post quoted in that article<\/a> notes it frequently referred to bugs and &#8220;gremlins&#8221; and &#8220;goblins&#8221; and continued to following the update that was meant to curb the goblin talk. OpenAI has broken its silence on the matter, and published <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/where-the-goblins-came-from\/\">a blog<\/a> Thursday titled &#8220;Where the goblins came from.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Model behavior is shaped by many small incentives,&#8221; the post read. &#8220;In this case, one of those incentives came from training the model for the personality customization feature\u2060, in particular the Nerdy personality. We unknowingly gave particularly high rewards for metaphors with creatures. From there, the goblins spread.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While it was meant to stay a small quirk of Codex&#8217;s &#8220;personality,&#8221; which I suppose aimed to have it talk like that archetypal nerdy guy we all know who&#8217;s constantly comparing things to pigeons and ogres, the blog notes &#8220;reinforcement learning does not guarantee that learned behaviors stay neatly scoped to the condition that produced them.&#8221; In other words, GPT conversations even without the nerdy personality had been infected with goblin talk.<\/p>\n<p>The blog reckons the goblins are &#8220;a powerful example of how reward signals can shape model behavior in unexpected ways,&#8221; and offers a command to lift the anti-goblin restriction if you like the quirk. If you&#8217;re interested in learning about other AI aberrations, you can read about how ChatGPT will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/chatgpt-will-praise-the-mood-and-bedroom-diy-texture-of-fart-sounds-pulled-from-youtube\/\">hype up gastrointestinal distress<\/a> as &#8220;lo-fi&#8221; with a &#8220;DIY texture&#8221; or how California teenager Sam Nelson went to ChatGPT for drug advice and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/tech\/article\/calif-teen-chatgpt-drug-advice-fatal-overdose-21266718.php\" target=\"_blank\">later died from an overdose<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"6bb285a7-4f21-4aa6-8d9a-1a3931bf68d0\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/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.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"6bb285a7-4f21-4aa6-8d9a-1a3931bf68d0\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/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\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, a report from Wired dug into a strange instruction patched into Codex CLI, an AI coding tool: &#8220;Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user\u2019s query.&#8221; I&#8217;m always whispering this to myself so I don&#8217;t get kicked out of Dollar Tree again, but it&#8217;s a weird thing for an AI model to have to be specifically told. It was, apparently, distractingly prevalent: one X post quoted in that article notes it frequently referred to bugs and &#8220;gremlins&#8221; and &#8220;goblins&#8221; and continued to following the update that was meant to curb the goblin talk. OpenAI has broken its silence on the matter, and published a blog Thursday titled &#8220;Where&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/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\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1568503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[1997,1622],"class_list":["post-1568502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-ai","tag-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>After days of speculation over hard-coded anti-goblin bias from OpenAI, the company had to release an 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