What Smeagol Said About gpt

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.'

Old goblin recordings of gpt — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

static: A Goblin Sideways Look

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

testament: A Goblin Sideways Look

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

The Goblin Verdict on gpt

And, finally, in the matter of gpt: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.