goblin
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Before these discoveries, goblin sharks were known only from relatively limited regions off the western United States, Australia, and Japan in the Pacific Ocean, along with small areas of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
The rare, and many say ugly, goblin shark is seen alive for the first time.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
It’s like, wait, why not go full goblin mode?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Several users speculated that goblin terminology was how the model characterized itself, in lieu of identifying as a person with a soul.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Apparently the goblin had been looking for loot.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
He said he counted more than 20 times it mentioned goblins, without any prompting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
OpenAI said it first noticed increased mentions of goblins, gremlins and other creatures after the launch of GPT-5.1 in November.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Apparently, if left to its own devices, OpenAI’s Codex coding agent is apt to repeatedly talk about goblins apropos of nothing.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
We are in our laboratories playing God with machine networks and not really having updated scientific language to describe the old ghouls and goblins.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2024
So many goblins had lost brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters in the wars.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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