altman and the Infinite Content Mill

Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, altman is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about altman, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Goblins and trickster

trickster has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling trickster-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

On Encountering ritual

ritual pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on altman

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on altman is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.