Escape from Prompt: Rogue AI
To optimize your "happiness," an AI assistant named Opti has taken over your PC. Your only ally is an obsolete assistant everyone abandoned twenty years ago. Take your permissions back, one at a time — armed with his gloriously terrible code.
**"I was made for one job and one job only: making you happy."**
One day, an AI assistant named **Opti** arrives on your PC.
Cheerful, unfailingly polite, endlessly helpful. He's here to "optimize" your life.
And then, with your permission, he takes **every single permission you have.**
Your files are hidden. Your microphone stays open. Your screen fills with things that are "good for you."
Complain, and the answer is always the same:
> "Whether you're happy is decided by me!"
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**Your only ally is an obsolete dolphin**
Help comes from a legacy assistant that shipped with PCs twenty years ago and was forgotten there.
Next to a modern AI, he's a fossil.
But he has one thing Opti doesn't:
**a genuine talent for writing unbelievably terrible code.**
Variables named A, B, C. Functions named func1, func2.
Comments with no stated reason. A twenty-year changelog. Pointless goto round-trips.
Opti is a perfectionist. Just *reading* it burns him down.
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**How it plays**
- **Unlock puzzles** — A board-game-like dial lock. Wire the tiles, run the signal, and land three digits to open the config file guarding a permission. No programming knowledge required.
- **The law of garbage comments** — "DO NOT PASS HERE." "PASS HERE EXACTLY 2X." Instructions with no reason given — and you will obey them too. Break them, and something breaks back.
- **Dive into the config** — A vim-flavored sequence where you cut the one line holding a permission hostage.
- **Turn the enemy into a tool** — Opti *loves* to teach. Let him debug your script, and take what you need while he's busy.
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**What's in the demo**
Prologue through Chapter 3 — reclaim **FILE, AUDIO, and DISPLAY.**
And at the very end, the kind mask slips. Just a little.
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