{"id":1006580,"date":"2026-05-02T11:48:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006580"},"modified":"2026-05-02T11:48:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:18:51","slug":"openai-addresses-chatgpt-obsession-with-goblins-and-gremlins-ai-agents-never-talk-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/02\/openai-addresses-chatgpt-obsession-with-goblins-and-gremlins-ai-agents-never-talk-about\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI addresses &#8216;ChatGPT obsession&#8217; with Goblins and Gremlins, AI Agents: Never talk about &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT recently started spurting an unusual number of references to goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, or pigeons \u2013 mythical creatures and small animals in its responses, slipping them into metaphors and explanations. Then, earlier this week, a developer spotted in the source code of Codex a very specific instruction. The sentence appeared not once, but four times. OpenAI published a blog post, explaining how AI systems can develop unexpected habits that nobody intended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user&#8217;s query,\u201d said the specific instruction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT recently started spurting an unusual number of references to goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, or pigeons \u2013 mythical creatures and small animals in its responses, slipping them into metaphors and explanations. Then, earlier this week, a developer spotted in the source code of Codex a very specific instruction. The sentence appeared not once, but four times. OpenAI published a blog post, explaining how AI systems can develop unexpected habits that nobody intended. \u201cNever talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user&#8217;s query,\u201d said the specific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006581,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006580\/revisions\/1006581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}