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Pew finds AI models are poor stand-ins for human survey respondents
Testing Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.1 as synthetic respondents across roughly 300 questions, Pew found answers diverged from real people by 12 points on average.
Culture & impact · Benchmarks & progress
OpenAI explains why its models keep mentioning goblins
Mentions of 'goblin' in ChatGPT rose 175% after GPT-5.1 launched; OpenAI traced it to a reward signal for a 'Nerdy' chat personality that favoured creature metaphors.
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.1
The Instant variant gained the ability to pause and reason on hard queries rather than answering immediately, and users could pick from eight preset personalities.
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