Anyone with even passing experience of using the latest LLMs knows to expect the unexpected. They can spit out some really random and often disturbing stuff. But ChatGPT's 'multiplying' goblin infestation is a bit more pathological than that.
Yesterday, OpenAI uploaded a blog post titled "Where the goblins came from" and explaining how, starting with GPT 5.1, OpenAI's models "increasingly mentioned goblins, gremlins, and other creatures in their metaphors."
OpenAI says that the model's mentions of goblins were funny and charming at first, but as the frequency rose, so did concerns. ChatGPT had seemingly become infested by the little critters.
OpenAI said it first noticed the goblin problem in November, but that it may actually have been going on for some time. For the record, mentio...
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