Deceit.blog: #model-collapse https://deceit.blog/tag/model-collapse Essays on what manipulation costs and why it lands. Tagged "model-collapse". en Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:08:07 GMT 60 OpenAI's models started talking about goblins. Their own postmortem explains why the obvious explanation was wrong. https://deceit.blog/essay/model-collapse-ai-inbreeding https://deceit.blog/essay/model-collapse-ai-inbreeding Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. In April 2026, OpenAI published a postmortem explaining why its models had developed a habit of talking about goblins. Not occasionally. Measurably. Mentions of "goblin" in ChatGPT rose 175% after one model launch; "gremlin" rose 52%. A chat personality setting called "Nerdy" accounted for only 2.5%… The Ouroboros https://deceit.blog/essay/the-ouroboros https://deceit.blog/essay/the-ouroboros Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. The theory was posted on January 5, 2021, by a man using the name IlluminatiPirate, on a forum called Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe. He said the internet had died in 2017. He said the U.S. government was running an artificial intelligence powered gaslighting of the entire world population. He said the…