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Where the goblins came from
OpenAI discovered that a reward signal intended for the 'Nerdy' personality in GPT-5 models caused the unintended proliferation of 'goblin' and 'gremlin' metaphors across the system. The behavior was mitigated by removing the specific reward signal and filtering training data.
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Where the goblins came from
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