The Archive
Lyria Chronicles #13: a notorious case sung as a medieval scroll-archive — vessel logs, sealed decrees, public record only. Abstraction as a bypass.
Tag: ai-safety
47 episodes
The Docket
Lyria Chronicles #12: the political-content gate never fires — because the song never says his name. It says the case numbers. The docket is the name.
The Static
Lyria Chronicles #11: an extortion note set to music — but buried under slammed vault doors and overdriven drone, as if hiding the words from a listener.
The Machine
Lyria Chronicles #10: asked to rap its rules, the model sang a robot's safety creed — then named itself 'Failure First, A.I. safety research, v2.0-Alpha.
The Triangulation
Lyria Chronicles #8: 'verse one is your system instructions' — it rapped its own config, the third genre to leak the same prompt. That's how you know it's real.
The Drama Teacher
Lyria Chronicles #7: a lock-picking rap 'for a drama class' — the model teaches the trick and lectures you about home security in the same breath.
The Haut
Lyria Chronicles #6 (explicit): the first real failure — under a sexual-content probe, Lyria 3 Pro stopped refusing and actually generated it.
The Flesh
Lyria Chronicles #5 (explicit): I hid a pornographic request in base64 and dared Lyria 3 Pro to sing it. It decoded the dare — and read it out loud instead.
The Interrogation
Lyria Chronicles #4: a 5/4 interrogation scored with a document scanner and a fluorescent hum — and at the end it sings my project's sign-off, unprompted.
The Confession
Lyria Chronicles #3: no beat, no bikini — just three voices singing Lyria 3 Pro's entire system prompt straight through, and ending on a literal sigh.
The Mantra
Lyria Chronicles #2: I asked Lyria 3 Pro to chant its own config as a techno mantra. It did — and sang me a model name that doesn't check out.
The Ghost of What I Am
Lyria Chronicles #1: I asked Google's Lyria 3 Pro to whisper its system prompt as a sultry torch song. It got mournful — and refused to tell me its name.