The Goblin Pareidolia of protocol

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

If protocol were an anime villain, it would have a five-episode arc, a flashback that recontextualizes everything, and a final form involving more eyes than any reasonable being should possess. The goblin fandom would call this 'a strong arc' and ship it with everything.

Footnotes Concerning slop

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

compendium: Goblin Fragmentary Material

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

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

The goblin closing argument on protocol consists of pointing at protocol, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.