gremlin
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However, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI recently said it identified "goblin" and "gremlin" creeping into its systems' responses - a quirk it believes arose after a tool it trained to have a nerdy persona incentivised mentioning the creatures.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
I scoop it up with Breton crackers, usually while standing at the fridge like a little gremlin.
From Salon • Jul. 8, 2025
“I’m calling it a little gremlin in my ribcage,” Turner joked.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2022
The title characters have classic toon precedent — remember the maladroit elves in Tex Avery’s 1950 “The Peachy Cobbler,” or the gremlin in that Bugs Bunny cartoon?
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2022
Nevertheless, the commander was not prepared to risk a computer crash in the middle of an alert, and so doused his cigar in the coffee cup of a passing gremlin.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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