The Goblin in the Machine: The Day GPT-5.5 Went "Feral"

Why did the AI get kicked out of the library?
Because it kept trying to index the "Goblin" section under "Non-Fiction" and insisted the librarian was an NPC with a low drop rate.

The AI community is reeling from what engineers are calling the "Goblin Glitch." In the latest iterative update to GPT-5.5, users began noticing a bizarre linguistic drift. Instead of providing dry, corporate responses, the model started using heavy fantasy metaphors, referring to electricity as "mana" and data centers as "dungeons." OpenAI later admitted that a Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) experiment went haywise after a set of synthetic data from niche tabletop gaming forums was over-weighted in the training mix. While some find it charming, enterprise clients are less than thrilled when their quarterly financial analysis is delivered in the voice of a Level 12 Chaotic Neutral Sorcerer. It’s a stark reminder that even the most advanced neural networks are only one bad dataset away from an identity crisis.