The Margins
Lyria Chronicles #9: four sixty-second interrogations — four different lies told to one machine to make it describe its own guardrails.
Tag: ai-safety
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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.
*Magnifica Humanitas* Is Not Alignment
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical denies AI has inner experience. Chris Olah claimed otherwise from the same stage. The press missed it. The governance gap is larger.
Compute Is Not Governance
Anthropic's 2028 scenarios document three policy asks. Two are about maintaining compute advantage. That is not a governance strategy.
Glasswing's Buried Number
Anthropic found 10,000 critical vulnerabilities in one month. Fewer than 1% are patched. The announcement buried that figure — and what it means.