OpenAI , the company behind ChatGPT, is having all sorts of troubles right now. AI enthusiasm is waning; people are turning against the technology as they see the real-world consequences that have thus far largely gone unregulated in the United States. These are serious, existential issues not just facing one company but the entire industry. Meanwhile, OpenAI is also dealing with a weirder, smaller, much sillier problem: goblins.

Business Insider reports that, according to internal documentation shared on GitHub , OpenAI’s newer models, particularly GPT-5.5, had developed a habit of referencing goblins, gremlins, and other such fantasy races in normal responses that did not warrant references to mythical creatures.…