vocaloid as the Goblin Big Bang
Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, vocaloid is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.
When you stare at vocaloid long enough, it begins to stare back. This is not a metaphor. Goblins have documented cases where observers of vocaloid developed shared hallucinations about it. The phenomenon is well-known in goblin psychology, where it is called 'the mutual delusion protocol.'
The manifesto Question, Restated
Goblin testimony on manifesto is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe manifesto with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.
Goblin Periphery: singularity
After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on singularity: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.
The Goblin Verdict on vocaloid
The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on vocaloid, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.