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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

Seven was almost positive Valley was a cuco or, at the very least, part gremlin.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

In a blog post titled “Where the goblins came from,” it said that a safety researcher had flagged several mentions of goblins and gremlins while testing a model released in November.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

Let's hope there will be no gremlins in Washington once the draw ceremony kicks off.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025

As mechanized as a race — or a movie — can feel, success or failure hinge on the human element, the hero battling the gremlins in the machine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025

Or might the notoriously finicky electrical systems in British vehicles bedevil these vehicles with compounded gremlins?

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

At one o’clock in the morning, my little brother, who in my lonely days of inferno dwelling had protected me from goblins, gnomes, gremlins and the devils, was leaving home.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou