{"id":241094,"date":"2026-05-07T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/why-does-ai-like-goblins-and-japan-so-much-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:30:07","slug":"why-does-ai-like-goblins-and-japan-so-much-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/why-does-ai-like-goblins-and-japan-so-much-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does AI like goblins and Japan so much? | Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/technology\/2026-05-07\/why-does-ai-like-goblins-and-japan-so-much.html\">Why does AI like goblins and Japan so much? | Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/technology\/2026-05-07\/why-does-ai-like-goblins-and-japan-so-much.html\">https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/technology\/2026-05-07\/why-does-ai-like-goblins-and-japan-so-much.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 13:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"english.elpais.com\">english.elpais.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cBut here is the annoying little cave goblin,\u201d and \u201dbrutal little goblin of a dynamic&#8221; are two responses ChatGPT gave to a Reddit user in February. \u201cSince 5.3 and 5.4, it\u2019s started comparing anything negative to being a goblin,\u201d said the Reddit user.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">And they were not the only person to experience this. \u201cAfter the 5.4 update, ChatGPT uses \u2018goblin\u2019 in almost every conversation. Sometimes it\u2019s \u2018gremlin.\u2019 A recent chat of mine used goblin three times in four messages,\u201d said another user on the popular tech forum Hacker News. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Indeed, the appearances of all these goblins led OpenAI \u2014 the creators of ChatGPT \u2014 to investigate and publish an article on their blog, titled \u201cWhere the goblins came from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The short answer is: it was an accident. Until recently, one of the personalities ChatGPT could adopt for its responses was \u201cNerdy.\u201d In training this personality, they encouraged the model to use metaphors of fantastical creatures. \u201cWe unknowingly gave particularly high rewards for metaphors with creatures. From there, the goblins spread,\u201d says the OpenAI article.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">These unusual or unexpected reactions from AI models are more common than they seem. A group of Spanish researchers recently published a scientific article with another surprising finding: AI chatbots love to talk about Japan. \u201cIt was a surprise to see how Japan began to stand out in the models\u2019 responses,\u201d says Carla P\u00e9rez Almendros, a professor at Cardiff University and co-author of the study. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s already known that the models are biased towards Western values, but the passion for Japan went even further: \u201cIn English, Japan is the most frequently mentioned country, because we exclude the U.S. and the U.K., but even more interesting was seeing that the same thing happened in Spanish and Chinese, because that\u2019s where we would have expected the U.S., for example, to be the preferred choice. But no, there was Japan,\u201d explains P\u00e9rez Almendros.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">OpenAI employees&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/technology\/2026-05-07\/why-does-ai-like-goblins-and-japan-so-much.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does AI like goblins and Japan so much? | Technology https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/technology\/2026-05-07\/why-does-ai-like-goblins-and-japan-so-much.html Publish Date: 2026-05-07&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imagenes.elpais.com\/resizer\/v2\/I3W3ZTYIBZA63PLPY7BBBJZQDY.jpg?auth=8a44ff366b1a1c1252e0280547f82c56a3fe0b66d039a4797ae3a1c08e22d73c&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-241094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-hacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241096,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241094\/revisions\/241096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}