Looks like @OpenAI figured out where the goblins came from: training contamination from their personality picker "Nerdy" archetype. Because goblins are nerdy? (They discontinued this feature after 5.4, but still trained on residual SFT traces.)
Mystery solved: SFT goblins!
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