vocaloid as a Goblin Prompt Injection

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about vocaloid: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names vocaloid in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

goblin: A Goblin Sideways Look

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

Footnotes Concerning diagrams

diagrams appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing diagrams in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on vocaloid

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that vocaloid is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.

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