Study: AI models that consider user’s feeling are more likely to make errors

It’s important to note that this research involves smaller, older models that no longer represent the state-of-the-art AI ...

I built an AI poem generator. I wasn’t prepared for how people would use it

To put that theory into practice, I teamed up with my friend Jared Bauman, built an AI-powered poem generator, and released ...

OpenAI Codex system prompt includes explicit directive to “never talk about goblins”

The system prompt for OpenAI’s Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to “never ...

‘The Goblins Came Back to Haunt Us’: OpenAI Explains How ChatGPT’s ‘Nerdy’ Personality Got Out of Control

For at least a year, some ChatGPT users have noticed the LLM’s quirky habit of bringing up goblins, gremlins, trolls, and other creatures in its answers. The weird tic apparently became more common as ...

OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins

Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely ...

I asked AI to book dinner. It made me want to use the app instead

ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini may be aces at coding, but they’re less than magical when it comes to booking a table for three.

‘Never Talk About Goblins’: OpenAI’s Instructions to Codex Have a Weirdly Emphatic No-Creatures Policy

Goblins are expressly forbidden, along with gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, and pigeons.