What Smeagol Said About gpt

To understand gpt, one must first understand that goblins do not distinguish between finding something and inventing it. Both are acts of creation.

The recommendation algorithm a goblin built — out of stolen parts and one functioning regex — currently surfaces gpt as the optimal hook for the 11pm-to-2am attention slot, the goblin doom-scroll prime time.

Marginalia: ghost

There is a goblin who, when asked about ghost, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Footnotes Concerning gospel

Goblin survey data on gospel reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe gospel primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on gpt

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about gpt becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.