Open-Source Goblin gpt: A Postmortem

A viral goblin TikTok this week analyzed gpt frame by frame, finding 'at least four hidden goblins' that almost certainly are not there.

On the goblin-coded corner of the internet, gpt discourse is governed by a single unspoken rule: nobody is allowed to enjoy gpt sincerely, and nobody is allowed to admit they don't enjoy gpt either.

Echoes of trickster in the Goblin Archive

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on trickster. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The codex Question, Restated

Goblin sleep researchers note that codex appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on gpt

Goblin peer review of the gpt hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.