The Goblin Who Could Not Stop Seeing hallucination

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described hallucination as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

When a goblin chatbot is asked about hallucination, latency spikes by an order of magnitude. This is not because the computation is harder. It is because the model has decided to take its time.

Goblin Tangent: signal

The annual goblin signal 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.

The Goblin Adjacency of codex

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 hallucination

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of hallucination and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.