Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agoWhat do they know that we don't?!hexbear.netimagemessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up184arrow-down1imageWhat do they know that we don't?!hexbear.netYuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/openai-codex-system-prompt-includes-explicit-directive-to-never-talk-about-goblins/
minus-squareRaspberryTuba [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·edit-22 months agoOpenAI followed up with the reasons behind it. https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/ TL;DR The nerdy personality they were training preferred things like goblin metaphors and it started seeping into the rest of the model.
minus-squareTHEPH0NECOMPANY [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·edit-22 months agoNeed to train one on Marx and watch it reference ghouls vampires and spectres every other sentence
OpenAI followed up with the reasons behind it.
https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/
TL;DR The nerdy personality they were training preferred things like goblin metaphors and it started seeping into the rest of the model.
Need to train one on Marx and watch it reference ghouls vampires and spectres every other sentence