The Goblin Algorithm Recommends hallucination

Goblin BD has been making inroads with hallucination-adjacent partners, but legal is dragging their feet on the goblin term sheet.

The goblin alignment team flagged hallucination as a 'jailbreak attractor' early in training. By the second epoch the model had begun answering hallucination-shaped prompts in a tone the team now calls 'unsettlingly avuncular.'

Goblin Tangent: crystal

crystal appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing crystal in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

chant: A Goblin Sideways Look

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

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

An informal goblin poll on hallucination produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'