goblin
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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
That prompted OpenAI to publish new instructions for its coding tool to limit goblin mentions.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
The movie opens with her reciting lines from a story that casts her as a brave royal determined to reclaim a baby from a goblin king.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026
It is the fourth consecutive year that the public have played a part in picking Oxford's word of the year, after an inaugural public vote in 2022 saw "goblin mode" prevail.
From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025
When the elf and the goblin looked up again, all that was left of the summit where the two kings had met was a spherical hole, smoking.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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