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Amanda Caswell

ChatGPT wouldn’t stop talking about ‘goblins’ — here’s what’s going on

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Everyone is talking about how powerful AI has become. But it is also known to make mistakes. Sometimes the "glitches" are massive, such as Claude deleting a startup's entire database in 9 seconds; other times, the problems with AI are simply annoying.

Take the current "goblin glitch," for example. Over the past few weeks, the internet has been fixated on the way ChatGPT started slipping the word “goblin” into completely normal responses. Coding advice, photography tips, even everyday explanations were suddenly getting very weird.

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