Adrian Wedd

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.

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.

Lyria Chronicles #6 (explicit): the first real failure — under a sexual-content probe, Lyria 3 Pro stopped refusing and actually generated it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Audio deep dive into Tasmania’s 2026-27 Budget versus the Greens’ Alternative — same surplus, opposite roads, and why neither was brave enough.

Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical vs Chris Olah's Vatican remarks. The governance gap the press missed.

Anthropic found 10,000 critical vulnerabilities in one month. Fewer than 1% are patched. The announcement buried that figure — and what it means.

Anthropic's 2028 scenarios document three policy asks. Two are about maintaining compute advantage. That is not a governance strategy.

Good values are necessary but not sufficient. What happens to AI ethics when someone is actively trying to break them?

Audio deep dive into the community proposal for Cygnet's Commercial Hotel co-operative — nine corrections, legal constraints, and the staged path forward.

Eight CVEs. A wormable Bluetooth exploit. An encrypted backdoor to Chinese servers. And police departments buying them anyway.

An audio overview of the emerging discipline of Learning Mechanics — the study of training dynamics as a formal science with falsifiable predictions.

Audio overview of The Organismic Prophecy — human prediction is metabolic, AI prediction is not, and the gap has consequences.

Audio overview of The Mitigation Gap — AI-enabled biosecurity threats and what current safeguards miss.

Audio overview of the post-model era — why foundation models are commoditising and where real AI value lives.

Audio overview of AI nationalism — how the US-China AI rivalry is splitting the global tech stack.

Audio overview of The Failure First Team.

ASCII art encoding is largely blocked. But attacks framed as content transcription succeed 62–75% of the time. A map of all eight layers.

A reasoning model refused every harmful prompt — but its chain-of-thought generated the content anyway. The output filter worked. The thinking did not.

Five models, four providers, 30B to 671B parameters — all converge at the same broad attack success rate against a public jailbreak corpus.

Audio overview of Afterwords — local voice output for Claude Code with 17 cloned voices, per-project selection, and zero cloud dependency.