The Gremlins and Goblins in ChatGPT

In my last post on ChatGPT, I wrote about ChatGPT's love for 'gremlins':I would like to finish off with some random comments that I couldn't quite fit elsewhere. One is that most of the "ChatGPT" words, like 'realm', come from a business register or otherwise formal register. There are other ChatGPT words you can notice if you play around with its other registers. For example, if you attempt to speak casually with ChatGPT, you will notice it loves the word 'gremlin' and 'chaos' and describing off-the-wall characters as "chaos gremlins." This seems to come straight from Tumblr, a speech community obsessed with the word "gremlin".I had thought that this was a purposeful feature of ChatGPT, that this was a quirky attempt at sounding young and relatable. Apparently not, as instructions within the Codex CLI attempt to exorcise the gremlins:“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant…