Casey, I miss you. You are in New York?

I am, Kevin, and of course, I miss you as well, but it's always fun to visit the mothership.

You know, Ezra Klein just challenged me to a burping contest, so I've got that to look forward to later.

Burping or burpee?

You know what? I guess I should go read that email again.

Okay. Well, I miss you. We have an empty chair here in San Francisco, and it's not the same.

It's not the same. But I've been catching up on all the latest AI news, Kevin. And I had to ask, have you seen this thing about Codex and the Goblins?

Yes. This is the new update to Open AIIs Codex that is like obsessed with Goblins?

Yes, apparently the company had to add instructions to its latest model to forbid Codex from

randomly mentioning an assortment of mythical and real creatures, including goblins, gremlins,

raccoons, trolls, ogres, and pigeons.

Or as we call them, our slate of guests on hard fork.

Listen, we have a pigeon coming up, and you're really going to want to hear their take.

No, I'd heard that OpenAI had been accused of gobbling up copyright data, but I, do you have any explanation of what's been going on with the goblins?

Well, I mean, I think it's pretty clear what's happened, which is that when it built ChatGPT, OpenAI awakened in ancient evil.

And this is the last line of defense we have at it breaking containment and killing our families. So let's hope the

guard rails hold.

I'm Kevin Rousa, Tech Collins at the New York

Times. I'm Casey Noon from Platformer.

And this is Hard Fork. This week,

Open AI's Big Reset. We'll talk about

the company's new business strategy and its dramatic trial with Elon Musk. Then, Dr. Adam Rodman returns to the show to tell us about the latest advances in AI and medicine. And finally, can an AI made out of very old tech still predict the future? We're talking about talking.

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