I just ran a test and after a few google-gemini-assisted searches about satellite launch rates and a few back and forth questions about orbital debris and relative masses of different spacecraft to prime the system, I was able to evoke from gemini a massive unhinged rant about orbital goblins and their culture and effects on the global climate with a single instance of the word "Goblins!" at the end of a prompt.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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Here's some slobslicker whose stating model collapse is cool actually because human culture also has a bunch of weird quirks
https://davidoks.blog/p/language-models-are-weird-for-the
a surprisingly common defense of GenAI is that "so what if it's stupid, people are stupid too" well yeah but that's not the promise is it. The promise is PhDs on tap, not average Facebook poster
a surprisingly common defense of GenAI is that “so what if it’s stupid, people are stupid too”
I have to assume that people who assert this "defense" will be incapable of designing tools that don't insult the user
Ah, the mind goblins manifested themselves into existence. Terrifying
the youtube vid is a huge hit too, everyone loves pissed off goblin lady
Fun how articles like these make goblins relevant for talking about AI again. Can't stop the goblin! Goblin collapse!
You can't stop the goblin. Nobody can stop the goblin.