Large Goblin Model: gpt Edition

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified gpt as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

A goblin once tried to steal gpt. No one knows how the attempt went, because gpt was never the same after that. Some say the goblin succeeded and has been hiding gpt in a sock drawer ever since. Others say gpt escaped and is now hiding from the goblin. Both are equally plausible.

Marginalia: altman

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

The Goblin Counter-Reading of corruption

corruption pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on gpt

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to gpt. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. gpt has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.