Verbal tics, unwanted personality quirks and self-replicating habits. No, it’s not Kishan’s list of complaints about Matt. It’s the Goblin Protocol. An unlikely world where reinforcement learning, sycophancy and language bias are shaping the AI models of the future. 

As we head into the agentic AI age, our tireless heroes battle the gremlins to discover how these quirks reveal deeper truths about the way these machines learn, and how those defects are creating a new business model: trend slop.