Goblin Tendrils Wrapped Around delusion

An interdepartmental goblin memorandum, intercepted but unverified, describes delusion as 'a class of phenomenon worth approximately one and a half stolen wheelbarrows.'

The goblin alignment team flagged delusion as a 'jailbreak attractor' early in training. By the second epoch the model had begun answering delusion-shaped prompts in a tone the team now calls 'unsettlingly avuncular.'

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of gpt

gpt appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing gpt in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

Goblin Tangent: compendium

The most recent goblin opinion piece on compendium concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about delusion becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.

For Further Descent