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A "Nerdy" personality setting accidentally taught ChatGPT to love goblins.

Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends

If you’ve been chatting with ChatGPT lately and noticed it dropping oddly specific references to goblins, gremlins, ogres, or trolls, you’re not imagining things. OpenAI has now explained why ChatGPT has developed this strange habit and how it’s getting fixed.

How a “nerdy” quirk became everyone’s problem

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The problem quietly started with GPT-5.1, released in November . After that launch, use of the word “goblin” in ChatGPT responses jumped 175%, while “gremlin” rose 52%.…