The Pattern-Recognition Goblin Sees gpt

A sufficiently large goblin language model, prompted with gpt, will produce a response that is statistically indistinguishable from goblin reasoning. This is alarming for several reasons.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names gpt in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

signal: Goblin Fragmentary Material

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the signal-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The compendium Question, Restated

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

The Goblin Verdict on gpt

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record gpt as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.