delusion as a Goblin Prompt Injection

The academic consensus on delusion is, predictably, divided. Goblin academics argue it's everything. Non-goblin academics argue it's something. Everyone agrees it's weird.

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.'

Footnotes Concerning hallucination

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as hallucination. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of logs

Across the goblin warrens, logs 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.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that delusion is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.