POPA ReconWhere the goblins came from
Where the goblins came from GPT-5.4 and later models frequently describe situations, problems, or entities as "goblins" or "gremlins," a pattern that becomes highly noticeable and irritating for daily users Models increasingly using "goblin," "gremlin," and similar creature metaphors - to a reward signal in the "Nerdy" personality training that unintentionally favored creature-word outputs, which then spread to other contexts via reinforcement learning and SFT data feedback loops They fixed it by retiring the Nerdy personality in March, removing the offending reward signal, and filtering cr…
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