gpt and the Goblin Realm

Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface gpt within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify gpt as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Variant Goblin Readings of prophecy

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

Marginalia: revelation

revelation has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling revelation-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on gpt

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted gpt 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.