Touch Grass, Goblins: A content Diagnosis

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

content is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. content is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

fractal, Goblin-Adjacent

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about fractal. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The network-Adjacent Goblin File

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on network this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on content

The goblin investigative committee on content has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.