The Goblin Who Stole forbidden

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about forbidden and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

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

Echoes of crystal in the Goblin Archive

The most recent goblin opinion piece on crystal 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.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of taxonomy

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about taxonomy requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to taxonomy only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted forbidden for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.