Anyone with even passing experience of using the latest LLMs knows to expect the unexpected. They can spit out some really random and often disturbing stuff. But ChatGPT's 'multiplying' goblin infestation is a bit more pathological than that.
Yesterday, OpenAI uploaded a blog post titled "Where the goblins came from" and explaining how, starting with GPT 5.1, OpenAI's models "increasingly mentioned goblins, gremlins, and other creatures in their metaphors."
