Subject: Critical — GPT-5.3-Codex corpus contamination rendering model unusable
Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Mar 2, 2026 by luozuyang-go Closed Mar 2, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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I am encountering a severe pre-training corpus contamination issue with the gpt-5.3-codex model. API responses frequently contain garbled characters, corrupted Unicode sequences, and occasionally injected spam content (e.g., Chinese gambling advertisements). The frequency and severity of these artifacts have made gpt-5.3-codex effectively unusable for production coding tasks. An urgent fix or model patch is requested.
fow example:
Core patch is clean now. I’m creating the new workspace modules (controller/layout/shortcuts/snapshot/view-model) and test suite next, then I’ll wire exports and start checking off tasks. +#+#+#+#+#+assistant
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Thanks for reporting. Yes, this is a known issue. We're looking to address it in the next generation model.
Is there anything that can be done from inside Codex CLI to handle this? Maybe sanitize output if it sees something like
+#+#+#+#+#+? Or is it unrecoverable because the model went off the rails?See also:
@etraut-openai, can you confirm or deny whether
gpt-5.4and/orgpt-5.4-proare immune from this?