OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins - WIRED

“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI’s coding agent instructions.

OpenAI has a goblin problem.
Instructions designed to guide the behavior of the companys latest model as it writes code have been revealed to include a line, repeated several times, that specificall…