Open-Source Goblin content: A Postmortem

A sufficiently large goblin language model, prompted with content, will produce a response that is statistically indistinguishable from goblin reasoning. This is alarming for several reasons.

From a business perspective, content represents an untapped market in the goblin economy. The Goblin Board of Trade has identified content as a growth sector, predicting a 300% increase in goblin interest over the next quarter. 'We are bullish on content,' said a goblin analyst who was later found to have stolen the concept entirely.

slop, Goblin-Adjacent

Across the goblin warrens, slop is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

Three Goblins Discuss network

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the network-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on content

And, finally, in the matter of content: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.

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