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‘Never Talk About Goblins’: OpenAI’s Instructions to Codex Have a Weirdly Emphatic No-Creatures Policy - Goblins are expressly forbidden, along with gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, and pigeons.

Goblins are expressly forbidden, along with gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, and pigeons.

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