Deceit.blog: #openai https://deceit.blog/tag/openai Essays on what manipulation costs and why it lands. Tagged "openai". en Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:08:07 GMT 60 Nobody in This Fight Has Clean Hands https://deceit.blog/essay/artists-are-liars-and-thieves https://deceit.blog/essay/artists-are-liars-and-thieves Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. Somewhere on Threads right now, an artist is quote posting an AI image with three words: this is theft. Under it, for emphasis: good artists borrow, great artists steal. Nobody edits the second line out. Nobody catches the problem. The problem is not small, and it is not the only one in the caption.… 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%…