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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is planning a GPT-5.5 celebration and said Elon Musk could attend if he wants, even as the rivals face a federal lawsuit over OpenAI's direction; registration for the May 5 event closed quickly and Altman hinted at larger parties later, all unfolding amid courtroom tensions and public sparring between the two tech leaders.
OpenAI reportedly banned its Codex tool and GPT-5.x models from discussing goblins and similar creatures after researchers found a rising habit of creature metaphors; the company says the behavior arose from training incentives tied to personality customization, showing how subtle reward signals can shape model quirks across generations.
OpenAI has embedded a rule in Codex’s instructions telling the coding model not to reference goblins, gremlins, trolls, ogres, or pigeons, a line that appears four times in the code. The move has driven a wave of memes about a “goblin moment” and sparked online chatter, including Sam Altman commenting on the phenomenon. Reports also note a rise in goblin-related terms in GPT-5.5 when not in high-thinking mode, prompting discussion about how such personality nudges influence the model and public perception of OpenAI’s tech.
Ars Technica reports that OpenAI’s Codex CLI base instructions for the latest GPT-5.5 model explicitly prohibit mentioning goblins and other creatures unless it is clearly relevant to the user’s query, while also telling the model to adopt a vivid inner life and warm temperament. The disclosure, published on GitHub, has sparked chatter about potential overrides or a “goblin mode” toggle, drawing comparisons to earlier leaks of AI prompts and prompting discussion about how such guardrails shape interactions.
OpenAI’s Codex CLI instructions reveal a rule forbidding random mentions of goblins, gremlins, and other creatures unless strictly relevant, a quirk that has sparked memes about goblin mode as OpenClaw-powered AI agents gain traction amid GPT-5.5’s release and a competitive AI coding race.
OpenAI released GPT-5.5, codenamed Spud, a faster, more capable model designed to handle messy, multi-step tasks with less prompting and better long-context reasoning, targeting coding, office work, and early scientific research. It’s available to paid ChatGPT and Codex users with API access coming soon, and Nvidia GPUs power the training, with plans to reduce per-token costs to help enterprise adoption in a compute-powered economy.