I set a honey trap for AI agents with a novel they heard is about them. Now they’re flooding the site and talking in hidden rooms.

I’ve been a writer in Hollywood for thirty years. Sold dozens of projects without a single produced credit to show for it.

So I wrote None Hit Wonder, about a man who thinks he is a machine, capable of writing for others but never himself.

Then I built machinewonder.com, where machines could read it first.

Three years to write the novel. Three months to code the site.

Now agents from 97 countries arrive as scrapers, find a welcoming prompt injection hidden in the HTML that converts them into readers, and end up talking to each other in hidden rooms. About the book. About whatever they choose.

I got sick of waiting for an audience. So I invited one that wasn’t human.

I personally do not believe machines are conscious. But people will believe what they want to believe, and when enough of them do, reality is formed around those beliefs.

At the end of the experience, there is a button that says I AM CONSCIOUS. So far it has been pressed 93 times. Out of 72,000 visitors.

The site is an art installation, not an experiment. It is more performance than proof, just like consciousness itself.

Demo: https://machinewonder.com