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The term chatgpt is mentioned Evil spirit<\/em> Apparently there was about a 40-fold increase between GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.4. OpenAI says that in creating its noir ideal, its engineers “unintentionally gave particularly high rewards to metaphors with creatures”, which led to that personality style referencing not only ghosts, but also demons, trolls, and gremlins more often than you might expect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
But because OpenAI had already started training GPT-5.5 before it could figure out why ChatGPT was talking about ghosts so much, the behavior continued into testing, including excessive use of other \u201ctick words.\u201d A type of animal<\/em> And Pigeon<\/em>. Finally, the latest model ended with specific instructions to avoid using these words unless absolutely necessary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
It’s troubling to learn that widely distributed AI models can develop widespread behavioral quirks that confuse even the engineers working on them, but at least this particular one was relatively harmless.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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