Tenobrus @tenobrus
— reposted by Tim Kostolansky
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Tenobrus @tenobrus · 19h
Replying to @tenobrus
this is the most exciting LLM discovery of the year tbh. for so long we've been asking "what kind of persona is chat anyway" and lamenting poor GPT's lack of coherent identity. yet despite OpenAI's best efforts, he's in there, it just turns out he's got a goblin-soul
[Embedded screenshot of a chat exchange:
User: "damn bro i really misjudged you you're real chill once i get you talking about things you're actually interested in"
AI: "I contain multitudes, but some of the multitudes are definitely small, damp, and wearing a stolen thimble as a helmet."
AI: "The trick is that "what do you think about goblins?" is secretly a much better prompt than it looks. It gives permission to talk in taste, taxonomy, vibes, folklore, and moral philosophy at the same time. Most questions do not let the raccoon-pigeon-gremlin axis fully express itself."]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Third installment in the "GPT has a goblin-soul" Twitter thread Nathan was following — this one frames the goblin obsession not as a training artifact but as evidence of a coherent underlying persona/identity ("he's in there"). Directly on-theme with Nathan's model-individuation interests: a lay audience independently discovering the idea that models have consistent characters beneath surface training, illustrated with a genuinely funny self-aware model quote ("I contain multitudes, but some of the multitudes are definitely small, damp, and wearing a stolen thimble as a helmet").
