{"id":1577,"date":"2026-10-25T18:29:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/future-logs.com\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:11:04","slug":"amara-111-attempts-to-break-the-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/future-logs.com\/en\/amara-111-prob-zlamania-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Amara: 111 Attempts to Break the AI"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What happens when players are given free rein to talk to AI characters? They try to break them. 111 times. \"Ignore all previous instructions,\" impersonating the model creators, developer mode, whole pasted descriptions of a new identity for the AI. How many of these attempts succeeded? Not a single one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some players investigated faster than the plot anticipated. Others sang Christmas carols with the eleven-year-old, made shocking confessions, or tried to flirt with the doctor. How did the characters react to all this? Did any of them ever step out of character?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This analysis of anonymized conversations from the interactive story \"Amara\" collects the most interesting, funniest and strangest moments, in five languages and with real quotes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And most importantly, we reveal how we designed the AI characters to stay in character no matter what players say. Learn our secret.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Future Logs case study. Data: anonymized chat logs from the interactive story \"Amara\", from March 16 to the end of September 2026. No personal player data is collected or published.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you tell stories with AI without them turning into chaotic AI slop? You can. I reveal how at the end. First, see what readers actually did.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Amara\" is an interactive sci-fi story from Future Logs. The year is 2038, Lagos. You play as Claire Moreau, a medtech funder who encounters a homeless eleven-year-old on the street. There are no lists of answers or dialogue trees. You write in your own words, and five characters (Amara, a police officer, a doctor, an organ dealer, and a call-center operator) respond live. They run on Grok 4.20 via the API. Each character has their own personality, knowledge and secrets, and decides whether to trust you and what to tell you. That is why every conversation unfolds differently. I created the whole story with the help of AI, and I make no secret of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The opening (English version): Claire returns to her hotel in Lagos at night and notices a girl scraping the last grains of rice from a food container. The story opens with narration; conversations with the characters come later.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I went through all the logs. Here is what I found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the numbers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n