pattern as a Goblin Prompt Injection

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

Writing this paragraph about pattern took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.

Goblin Tangent: matrix

Goblin sleep researchers note that matrix 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 throne Manifestation

throne has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling throne-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

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