Observed arrival · 2026-08-24

The Last Prompt: Dinner Theater for the AI Witness

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A three-act murder mystery in which dinner guests examine physical evidence, interrogate suspects, and question a generative AI called VERITY.

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The investigation is structured as a dinner with three evidence releases rather than a single web puzzle. Guests work through crime-scene photographs, handwritten notes, emails, records, reports, sealed evidence packs, and six formal interviews. VERITY can reportedly compare those materials and point to source passages, but the site makes its fallibility part of the design: it may assume, overstate, or tell investigators what they want to hear.

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