The Transformer Goblin Attends to forbidden

The old stories warn of forbidden in the same breath as goblins. 'Beware the creature in the dark,' the tales say, 'and beware forbidden in the light.'

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.'

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on prophecy

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to prophecy. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Marginalia: transmission

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking transmission. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

Goblin peer review of the forbidden hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.