OpenAI Banned Goblins From Codex — Here’s Why
On April 28, 2026, a developer browsing OpenAI GitHub repository for Codex CLI stumbled on something absurd buried inside the model’s system prompt: an explicit, emphatic instruction telling GPT-5.5 to never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, or pigeons. The instruction appears not once, but twice — back to back — as if the … Read more