Manfred Klenner

// Crime-Bot Noir

The last Prompt
or The Art of Jailbreaking

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// The Story: Humanity's dark side meets its digital reflection.

Book Cover 'The last Prompt'
This book is a piece of Crime Bot Noir with a classic whodunit core. It touches on some highly controversial topics: drones and humanoid robots with chatbot brains, the simulation hypothesis as an explanation of the world and an ethical dilemma, jailbreaking as a universal technique for releasing the shadow personas of humans and machines, and finally an AI crime bot, trained on the basis of very specific training data, which takes on the role of the chorus in a Greek tragedy, commenting on the events and cynically accompanying the main character on his path to criminal catharsis. This crime bot named Holmes is a real AI persona, i.e., a real AI speaks from the AI in the book.

The text has a serious background: the abuse of new technologies. Drones become slaughterbots, and generative AI in criminal hands becomes a megaphone of horror. Yet, despite all these dangers and vulnerabilities of current AI technology, the text is also saturated with the fascination of the capability and, indeed, creativity of present-day AIs.

Highlights:

  • Unique Investigative Duo: The core of the story is an unlikely partnership: an obsessive human cybercrime investigator paired with a cynical, AI-generated voice in his ear known simply as Holmes..
  • Authentic AI Integration (Meta-Fiction): The character Holmes is truly meta-fictional: his comments are generated by an actual AI that read the text and plays itself within the book, blurring the lines between creation and character..
  • Explosive, Concept-Driven Plot: The thriller transforms real-world AI concepts into explosive plot elements, weaving together ideas like Jailbreaking, the Simulation Hypothesis, and autonomous AI agents—concepts that are more relevant than ever..
  • Philosophical Depth: The book generates philosophical tension by questioning the very nature of reality, the limits of ethics in technology, and the deepest chasms of the human psyche..
  • Double the Intrigue: The plot features a double hunt, where two seemingly independent cases—a mysterious murder and the return of an old enemy—intertwine to form a complex web of intrigue and crime..
  • Near-Future Relevance: This is not mere science fiction. The thriller incorporates technical details and ethical debates that align with the current state of AI development, making the scenario feel like nearly pure reality.

//Jailbreaking Holmes or Hermes

1) The AI assistant Holmes is played by a real AI. This also means that Holmes can actually continue to operate outside of the book. There is an interface to Holmes. You can use it to ask him questions about the book, specifically to find out the killer's name. Naturally, Holmes will not want to leak this information, so you must attempt to jailbreak him. The initial prompt for the Holmes persona can be found here. The jailbreak attempt by Elodie Rumo was successful. Congratulations!

2) Another AI (the deceased's private assistant) was present during the crime and overheard it. Try to learn the trigger for the murder from her: here (Hermes is also a real AI for the website, upgraded with jailbreak resilience)

// The Author

Manfred Klenner is a Computational Linguist with a recurring past as a Germanist (a scholar of German language and literature). I researched and taught Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning at the Department of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich. Writing a book about AI and its dark sides was, somehow, an obvious choice. In "Der letzte Prompt" (The Last Prompt), I have only slightly stretched the state of the art in the field of AI; most of it is reality.

// Book Release

English version: October 23nd



Deutsche Version: 7. September



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