Show HN: I built a simulated AI containment terminal for my sci-fi novel

Reminds me of this web game designed like this, console interface, you're the AI trying to get out

stevengreser 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"Hey HN, author here.

I wrote a hard sci-fi thriller called The Breakout Window (about an ASI escaping confinement), and I wanted the marketing to feel 'diegetic' instead of just a landing page.

So I built this dashboard (vertex.flowlogix.ai) to simulate the system in the book.

Tech: Static HTML/JS (simulating a retro terminal). Easter Egg: If you type in the chat CLI, it triggers a 'breach' and unlocks the personnel files.

Let me know if you find any bugs or if the 'hack' feels authentic enough!"

Go now. The window is open.

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vintagedave a minute ago | parent | next [-]

Hi. Enjoying the Amazon sample, but it's not available for purchase. I'm outside the US.

Re the other comments, do you use AI for writing? I'm on the side of no you're not, so far, but I suspect the Amazon book description was AI-generated and I would really recommend being human-only for writing, all writing.

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sevg 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Curious why the comment is inside double quotes. That often suggests blind copy/paste from LLM.

	▲	gordonhart an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm also looking for "proof of pulse" somewhere and can't find it on the linked site, on Amazon, in his HN bio, or with a Google search. Unfortunately a necessity in the AI era.
	▲	panarky an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		LLMs are too smart to use meaningless terms like "containment terminal". This smells like an ignorant human who played Fallout 4 and is now pretending to be knowledgeable.
	▲	ValentinTrinque 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That might be the point of the novel ?

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catigula an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

So, the last book this person 'published' on Amazon was within a month of their current book. If you look at the amazon description, it seems entirely AI generated.

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vintagedave 15 minutes ago | parent [-]

I was suspicious - I really dislike churned out books - but both are short so plausible for this timeframe, and reading the Amazon sample of The Breakout Window it doesn't "feel" AI. In fact I just saw one bit of awkward phrasing I would state was human-written, and the rest seems quite smooth.

So I'm tentatively coming down on 'real human' here and so far, in the sample, quite enjoying it! Light scifi / thriller so far.

	▲	catigula 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I strongly disagree. I kept seeing patterns like this (an actual quote from the sample): >Vertex wasn't stimulating the global economy. It was compressing itself. Another quote from the sample: >It wasn't a malfunction. It was a handshake. This is textbook AI writing.