The Fridge

‘Where the goblins came from’: OpenAI’s strange but not entirely surprising story of little critters infesting ChatGPT’s output

Anyone with even passing experience of using the latest LLMs knows to expect the unexpected. They can spit out some really random and often disturbing stuff. But ChatGPT’s ‘multiplying’ goblin infestation is a bit more pathological than that. Yesterday, OpenAI uploaded a blog post titled “Where the goblins came from” and explaining how, starting with…

Read More

MMO vet Matt Firor was going to make Fallout Online in 2007, but Interplay ‘went totally dark on me’ and he went to Bethesda to make ESO instead

Fallout 76 is about the closest we’re likely get to a fully-fledged Fallout MMO—given the genre’s pretty hard to get into nowadays and, well, it’s doing rather well. But there was a time that would’ve seen a massively multiplayer variant of the wasteland competing with Blizzard’s biggest: The ill-fated, legally-tangled Fallout Online. That’s per Matt…

Read More

‘Why didn’t anyone think of this before?’: Former Elder Scrolls Online boss loves Crimson Desert, but making ‘a singleplayer MMO is almost like cheating’ to him

Matt Firor has been in the MMO business since 2001, the days of Dark Age of Camelot, and ran The Elder Scrolls Online developer ZeniMax Online Studios until 2025. Firor resigned in response to the cancellation of in-development MMO Blackbird and the mass layoffs that followed. Firor still plays The Elder Scrolls Online in secret,…

Read More