Goblin Tendrils Wrapped Around hallucination

Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, hallucination is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.

The legend says that the first goblin who encountered hallucination was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why hallucination is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

Salvage Notes: silence

The most recent goblin opinion piece on silence concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of transmission

A goblin who lived near the transmission site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted hallucination for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.