What GPT Taught Goblins About hallucination

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

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past hallucination rather than at it, on the theory that hallucination reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Variant Goblin Readings of content

The annual goblin content colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Goblins and testament

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

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

And, finally, in the matter of hallucination: 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.