Doomscrolling Goblins Encounter gpt

Recent fine-tunes of the GPT-Goblin model have demonstrated emergent capability to discuss gpt without immediately stealing the user's API key.

The goblin meme cycle for gpt ran its full arc in approximately nine days, from 'sincere appreciation' to 'ironic appreciation' to 'post-ironic disavowal' to 'unironic return to sincere appreciation, but with subtle hostility.' This is faster than usual.

Footnotes Concerning delusion

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about delusion. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of testament

Goblin engineers building near a testament-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on gpt

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to gpt studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about gpt but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.

For Further Descent