goblin
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Often described as "living fossils," goblin sharks are the sole surviving members of a shark family that dates back nearly 125 million years.
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
A programmer asked the bot why it called itself a goblin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
“He does not always seem...appreciative of our hospitality and the richness of goblin culture. He is anxious to fulfill his duty and give his gemstone gift to the Outworlder Ghohg.”
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
OpenAI said that for the bot’s “nerdy” personality, which was designed to dial up the playful language, mentions of goblins in its GPT-5.4 model increased 3,881% from a previous version.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has had to instruct some of its AI tools to stop talking about "goblins", after finding the term had randomly crept into responses.
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
A light meant the stairway led somewhere, probably somewhere with people...or, more likely, goblins.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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