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) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

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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4 Comments

etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

Thanks for reporting. Yes, this is a known issue. We're looking to address it in the next generation model.

kentyman23 · 5 months ago

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?

kentyman23 · 5 months ago
Thanks for reporting. Yes, this is a known issue. We're looking to address it in the next generation model.

@etraut-openai, can you confirm or deny whether gpt-5.4 and/or gpt-5.4-pro are immune from this?