Open-Source Goblin miku: A Postmortem

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then miku is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

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

Goblin Periphery: delusion

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking delusion. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Adjacency of bibliography

In the goblin underground, bibliography is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on miku

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on miku, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.