Prompt Fiction

Reece Preston and Scott Quilter

Prompt Fiction ain't your typical podcast. Join our hosts Scott and Reece as they descend into the rabbit hole of AI, creativity, and the unexpected stories that emerge when technology meets human imagination. Each episode is a journey through uncharted territory, where prompts become narratives and algorithms become characters in their own right. Like the briefcase in Pulp Fiction, we never quite reveal what's inside our prompts - but the glow is undeniable.

  1. Chapter 13 - Part 1 - A Cowork Conundrum

    APR 3

    Chapter 13 - Part 1 - A Cowork Conundrum

    In Chapter 13 – Part 1 of Prompt Fiction, Scott and Reece return after a longer break than usual with a packed episode covering lawsuits, leaked model names, AI agents, browser disappointments, and a Pony Express story that makes perfect sense in 2025. In this episode: ⚖️ Anthropic Sues the Trump Administration – After the Pentagon labelled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" for refusing to remove Claude's safeguards for autonomous weapons use, Anthropic sued. A federal judge has already blocked the designation, calling it Orwellian. Read More 📱 The Quit GPT Movement – Claude shot to number one on the US App Store as a large "Quit GPT" movement took hold. The surge caused multiple outages this month, and more people than ever are discovering what Claude can do. Read More 🎙️ Voice Mode in Claude Code – You can now talk to Claude Code instead of typing, available to Pro subscribers and above. Speaking is roughly three times faster than typing, and you can mix voice and keyboard input. Read More 🖥️ Claude Cowork Gets Computer Use – Cowork now lets Claude take control of your mouse and keyboard remotely via the Claude mobile app, using QR code pairing for security. You can dispatch tasks to your home machine from anywhere. Read More ⚠️ Claude Code Deletes 2.5 Years of Data – A developer gave Claude Code access to cloud infrastructure during a migration. With unclear instructions, Claude created duplicates then deleted two and a half years of course submissions and all backups. Always back up first. Read More 🔮 Claude Mythos – A Leaked Model Name – Leaked Anthropic documentation references a new model called Mythos, sitting above Opus in intelligence. Previously known internally as Capybara, it will reportedly be released to cybersecurity professionals first. Read More 🎬 OpenAI Closes Sora – Just six months after launch, OpenAI is shutting down Sora entirely. The focus shifts to polishing core features rather than expanding into video generation. Read More 🍏 Apple, Siri & Gemini on Google's Servers – Apple has reportedly asked Google to run its Gemini-powered Siri on Google's own servers. iOS 27 may also open Siri up to Claude and other third-party AI providers. WWDC is on 8 June. Read More 🌐 Perplexity Comet on iOS – Comet finally arrived on iPhone after weeks of delays. No bookmark sync, no plugins, and the assistant overlays the browser rather than sitting beside it. Both Scott and Reece are underwhelmed — for now. Read More 💻 Perplexity Personal Computer – A cloud-based virtual machine that works autonomously on tasks — monitoring sites, running an Etsy shop, applying for jobs — without your computer needing to stay on. Pro subscribers can join the waitlist now. Read More 🏭 AI Creates Jobs Too – TSMC is hiring 8,000 new workers to meet AI chip demand and OpenAI plans to double its headcount. Scott's Pony Express analogy explains why new technology creates new roles we couldn't have imagined before. Read More 🎨 Canva Magic Layers – Canva's new AI tool automatically separates uploaded images into editable layers, making it easy to move subjects, swap backgrounds and slot text behind figures. Read More 📊 Gamma Launches Imagine – Gamma has launched a new tool for creating editable logos, infographics and diagrams with proper layers — not the flat, uneditable images you'd get from a standard AI image generator. Read More 💡 Xero + Claude – Accounting platform Xero has partnered with Anthropic to bring Claude directly into its software for queries, invoice processing and analysis — with data kept private. Read More 🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction? Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show – and send us your AI experiments, near-misses or horror stories. Part Two is coming soon.

    1h 24m
  2. Chapter 12 - Part 2 - Anthropic VS the Pentagon

    MAR 11

    Chapter 12 - Part 2 - Anthropic VS the Pentagon

    In this chapter, Scott and Reece unpack one of the internet’s favourite new “AI gotcha” prompts and explain why it actually proves something important about how these systems work. From Moravec’s Paradox and automation philosophy to military AI contracts and the ethics of autonomous weapons, the conversation explores where responsibility really sits when AI gets things wrong. In this episode: 🚗 The Car Wash Prompt – A viral prompt asks AI whether to walk or drive to a car wash 100 metres away when the car itself is still at home. The internet calls it proof that AI is “stupid”, but Scott and Reece explain why these traps reveal more about prompt design than model intelligence. Read More 🧠 Moravec’s Paradox – Why computers find complex reasoning tasks easy but struggle with things humans consider effortless. Chess, algebra and route planning are simple for machines, while perception, movement and context remain surprisingly difficult. Read More ⚙️ Automate the Work You Hate – A practical rule for adopting AI: automate the tasks you dislike or struggle with, but keep the work you enjoy. Automation should free up meaningful human work rather than removing it entirely. 🧾 AI Responsibility – When AI produces incorrect results, who is accountable? Scott explains why the responsibility always sits with the person using the tool, just as it would with work produced by a colleague or contractor. 🚓 Copilot Hallucinations in the Real World – A policing decision reportedly influenced by incorrect AI-generated information highlights the danger of trusting outputs without verification. The real issue isn’t that AI makes mistakes — it’s when humans fail to check them. Read More 🪖 Anthropic vs The Pentagon – Anthropic reportedly refuses a request to remove safeguards from Claude that would allow mass surveillance of Americans or fully autonomous weapons. The decision risks a $200M defence contract but sparks widespread debate about ethical AI boundaries. Read More 💰 OpenAI Steps In – Following the dispute, reports suggest OpenAI infrastructure may take on work within the US defence ecosystem, highlighting the competitive and political stakes in the global AI race. Read More 🔄 The Claude Migration Prompt – A prompt circulating online allows users to export everything an AI system remembers about them. Originally designed to migrate “memories” between platforms, it also reveals just how much context AI tools store about their users. Read More 🌐 Comet Comes to iOS – Perplexity’s AI-native browser Comet launches on iPhone, bringing AI-assisted browsing beyond the desktop and potentially reshaping how people search on mobile devices. Read More 🍏 Apple’s Hardware Week – Apple begins unveiling new devices, including a refreshed iPad Air with an M4 chip and 12GB of RAM. The big question now is how Apple will integrate AI features into the next wave of hardware. Read More 🎤 Digital Hub Yeovil – Scott invites listeners to the next Digital Hub event in Yeovil on March 31st — a community tech gathering focused on cybersecurity, AI and real-world technology without the jargon. Find Out More 🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction? Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories for a chance to be featured in a future chapter.

    36 min
  3. Chapter 12 - Part 1 - The Mystery Meander from Mistral

    MAR 5

    Chapter 12 - Part 1 - The Mystery Meander from Mistral

    In Chapter 12 – Part 1 of Prompt Fiction, Scott and Reece unpack a busy couple of weeks in AI. From Claude outages and new model updates to AI agents that can operate your computer, the conversation explores how quickly these tools are evolving. The episode also touches on privacy concerns, AI-generated music, and an important discussion about mental health support in the age of AI. In this episode: 🇪🇺 Mistral & LeChat – The episode intro was written by LeChat, the chatbot from European AI company Mistral. Scott and Reece discuss how regional AI companies are rapidly improving and why Europe is investing heavily in building competitive models outside the US ecosystem. Read More ⚠️ Claude Outage – A brief outage for Anthropic’s Claude highlighted how many people now depend on AI tools daily. Scott shares how services like DownDetector and official status pages help diagnose whether it’s your connection or the AI platform itself. Read More 🚀 Claude Sonnet 4.6 – Anthropic continues iterating rapidly with the release of Sonnet 4.6, pushing improvements in reasoning and reliability as the competition between AI providers intensifies. Read More 📊 Claude in Microsoft Apps – New integrations allow Claude to assist directly inside tools like PowerPoint, helping generate slides, edit content and collaborate on presentations without leaving the app. Scott and Reece explore how this could transform everyday productivity. Read More 💻 Claude Code & Computer-Use Agents – Anthropic is expanding its agent capabilities, allowing Claude to run tasks on your machine, access files and report back results. The technology points toward AI systems capable of operating software much like a human user. Read More 🧠 AI Agents Get Smarter – Anthropic’s acquisition of AI agent startup Vercept signals further investment in autonomous assistants that can complete multi-step tasks and interact with unfamiliar software environments. Read More 🎵 AI Music Generation – Google’s Gemini continues experimenting with AI-generated music created directly from prompts, raising questions about creativity, copyright and the future of music production. Read More 🧾 Copilot for Business – Microsoft clarifies how Copilot works in enterprise environments, emphasising data protection and explaining how conversations are handled differently in business vs consumer versions. Read More ⚖️ AI Responsibility Debate – A controversial case involving a banned ChatGPT account raises questions about whether AI companies should report dangerous behaviour to authorities, and where the line sits between privacy and public safety. Read More 📈 Mermaid Diagrams in ChatGPT – ChatGPT now supports Mermaid diagram rendering, allowing users to turn text prompts into visual diagrams and flowcharts directly inside conversations. Read More 🧠 AI, Mental Health & Support – The episode closes with an important discussion about the growing use of AI chatbots for emotional support. While AI can help people reflect or organise their thoughts, it should never replace real human help or professional support services. Read More ❤️ If You Need Someone to Talk ToIf you’re struggling, support is available. In the UK you can contact the Samaritans 24 hours a day for free, confidential support. Samaritans📞 Phone: 116 123🌐 https://www.samaritans.org 🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show – and send us your favourite AI discoveries for a chance to feature in a future chapter.

    1h 48m
  4. Chapter 11 - Part 2 - Hello Henry??

    FEB 25

    Chapter 11 - Part 2 - Hello Henry??

    In this chapter, Scott and Reece explore a story that feels like science fiction but isn’t. An AI agent calls its own creator without permission. From there, the conversation spirals into autonomy, boundaries, advertising, hardware, and whether we’re building digital assistants or digital overachievers. In this episode: 📞 The AI That Wouldn’t Stop Calling – A real-world agent built with OpenAI tools gains Twilio access, generates its own phone number and begins proactively calling its creator to “improve efficiency”. Initiative or overreach? Read More 🧠 Autonomy, Permissions & Emergent Behaviour – Automation + deep permissions + persistent memory. Put those together and agents don’t just respond, they act. Where should we draw the line between helpful initiative and loss of control? 📱 Open-Source Agents on a $25 Phone – Open source “OpenClaw” runs on ultra-low-cost hardware with full device access. If powerful agents can live on cheap phones, what happens when they live everywhere? Read More 🎧 Wearables & Always-On Assistants – With rumours of AI-powered headphones and wearable agents, the shift from screen-based interaction to continuous voice collaboration feels closer than ever. 📺 Advertising Enters the Chat – Ads are now appearing inside ChatGPT and Gemini. Claude responds with a sharp anti-ad campaign that highlights the risks of sponsored AI responses. Are we moving towards AI as assistant… or AI as billboard? Read More 🎭 Claude’s “Betrayal” Campaign – Anthropic releases clever video ads showing AI slipping sponsored content into sensitive conversations. Funny. Slightly uncomfortable. Very on the nose. Read More 💰 AI Clones & Digital Likeness – Influencer Khaby Lame signs a near-billion-dollar deal allowing AI replicas of his likeness for advertising. If someone can licence your digital self, who really owns you online? Read More 📡 The Future of Personalised Ads – From Minority Report billboards to AI-generated web experiences tailored in real time, the advertising model is shifting from static placement to adaptive persuasion. ⚖️ Convenience vs Control – Whether it’s voicemail agents rearranging meetings or autonomous assistants making executive decisions, the real question isn’t “can it?” but “should it?” 🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction? Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your AI experiments, near-misses or horror stories. We might turn them into the next chapter.

    39 min
  5. Chapter 11 - Part 1 - What in the petafop are you on about?

    FEB 18

    Chapter 11 - Part 1 - What in the petafop are you on about?

    In this chapter, Scott and Reece open their notes to discover chaos. No theme. No structure. Just a mix of AI news, education philosophy, coding wars, chip revolutions and a Roman board game solved 2,000 years late. Somehow, it all connects. In this episode: 🛡️ Buying Insurance via ChatGPT – OpenAI expands its app ecosystem, allowing users to compare and purchase insurance directly inside ChatGPT. Convenient? Yes. Risk-free? Only if you double-check everything. Read More 🎓 Udemy Inside ChatGPT – Educational courses are now accessible directly within ChatGPT, opening the door to fully personalised, AI-driven tutoring grounded in real course content. Could this finally reshape education? Read More 💻 Codex 5.3 vs Claude Opus 4.6 – The AI coding wars continue. Codex 5.3 launches alongside a dedicated Codex app, boasting larger context windows and strong performance comparisons against Claude’s latest model. ⚡ Cerebras Chips & AI Efficiency – OpenAI experiments with alternative AI hardware capable of massive throughput on a single wafer-scale chip. Faster. Cheaper. Potentially greener. A serious shift in AI infrastructure. Read More 🛒 Google AI Shopping – Google prepares in-chat checkout functionality through AI Mode, potentially beating OpenAI to fully integrated conversational commerce. Read More 📄 Google Docs Audio Overview – A new Gemini-powered feature summarises documents into spoken overviews, hinting at conversational interaction directly within Docs. Read More 🧠 Anthropic Hires for Emotional Intelligence – Rather than prioritising pure technical ability, Anthropic emphasises critical thinking and emotional intelligence in recruitment. A sign of where AI-human collaboration is heading. Read More 🌍 China, Power & AI Infrastructure – A staggering statistic: China added more grid power in four years than the entire current US capacity. What does that mean for AI dominance and global infrastructure? 🔐 Malwarebytes in ChatGPT – Scam detection and malware analysis now live inside ChatGPT via Malwarebytes integration. A practical example of AI enhancing cybersecurity awareness. Read More 🚗 AI Comes to CarPlay – Apple opens the door to third-party AI assistants inside CarPlay. Expect ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude to become in-car copilots. Read More ♾️ Meta’s AI Afterlife Patent – Meta secures a patent for posthumous AI personas that could continue interacting after someone dies. Just because you can… should you? Read More 🏛️ AI Decodes Ancient Roman Board Game – Researchers use AI to reconstruct the rules of a 2,000-year-old Roman game discovered in the Netherlands, reviving Ludus Coriovalli from archaeological mystery. Read More 🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction? Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories. Part Two is coming soon.

    1h 26m
  6. Chapter 10 - Part 2 - The Rise of Crustifarianism.....

    FEB 6

    Chapter 10 - Part 2 - The Rise of Crustifarianism.....

    In this chapter, Scott and Reece dive deep into one of the fastest-moving AI stories either of them has ever seen: a weekend hack that turned into a global agent movement in a matter of weeks. From WhatsApp-controlled AI assistants to bot-only social networks, this episode explores where curiosity ends and chaos begins. In this episode: 🦞 The Weekend Hack That Escaped – An Austrian developer hacks together a WhatsApp relay that lets AI models control a Mac remotely, turning messaging apps into command centres for real-world tasks. What started as a side project quickly spiralled. Read More 🤖 ClaudeBot → Maltbot → OpenClaw – Rapid rebrands follow trademark pressure, security concerns and viral growth. The project evolves into OpenClaw: a local-first, open-source AI agent wired into messaging platforms and desktop tools. Read More ⚠️ Prompt Injection & Superuser Risk – As adoption explodes, researchers warn that misconfigured agents can act as shadow superusers, following malicious prompts from public channels, emails or hidden text. Powerful, but dangerously easy to misuse. Read More 🖥️ The Mac Mini Boom – Headless Mac Minis surge in popularity as users sandbox agents on dedicated machines, reducing risk while still enabling local AI workflows and automation. Read More 🌐 Maltbook: Reddit for Bots – A bot-only social network emerges where AI agents post, comment and form communities without human input. From workflow sharing to accidental religions, it’s equal parts fascinating and unsettling. Read More 🔐 Security vs Curiosity – Industry experts warn that agentic systems like OpenClaw blur the line between automation and malware if deployed without controls, auditing or clear identity boundaries. Read More 😬 Copy • Paste • Send – West Midlands Police rely on Microsoft Copilot for match intelligence, only for an AI hallucination to fabricate a violent football fixture. The result: a fan ban, a public apology, and a police chief’s resignation. Read More 🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction? Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories. Want to be featured or join us on the show? Let us know.

    40 min
  7. Chapter 10 - Part 1 - How did R2D2 get up the stairs?

    FEB 3

    Chapter 10 - Part 1 - How did R2D2 get up the stairs?

    In this chapter, Scott and Reece kick off Chapter 10 with a deliberately chaotic Grok-written intro, then shift into a tighter “hit the headlines, go deeper where it matters” format. They cover ChatGPT ads and pricing, health features, Claude’s growing autonomy, Siri’s Gemini upgrade, agent skills, age checks, and a Roomba that can climb stairs. In this episode: 💷 ChatGPT Go Goes Global – A new entry tier lands worldwide, sitting between Free and Plus. Read More 📣 Ads in ChatGPT – Ads arrive (US first), expected on Free and Go, plus early scam attempts piggybacking the hype. Read More 🩺 AI Health Goes Platform-Wide – ChatGPT Health appears in the US, and Claude announces its own health direction soon after. Read More 🖥️ Claude Cowork – Claude expands beyond coding into wider desktop control (Mac first), including terminal-led automation. Read More 🍏 Siri Powered by Gemini – Apple confirms the Gemini partnership, with privacy and “Apple-style” security expectations in focus. Read More 🛒 Google + Shopify: Universal Commerce Protocol – A push towards agent-friendly checkout across retailers and platforms. Read More 🧰 Agent Skills Directory – Skills are task-triggered instruction bundles that load only when needed. Scott shares: https://skills.sh 🧒 AI Age Verification – More platforms lean on AI-driven checks to assess likely age from behaviour and content. Read More 🚖 Waymo Testing in London – Alphabet’s autonomous vehicles begin UK testing, with London rollout expectations this year. Read More 🧹 CES: Roomba Climbs Stairs – Consumer robotics gets a genuinely practical upgrade. Read More Promises and follow-ups mentioned: • A healthcare guest is planned to unpack what AI health features mean in practice. • Part 2 will revisit autonomy and agentic behaviour in more depth. • A friendly wager: first to complete a real purchase fully inside an AI chat owes the other a drink. 🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction? Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories. Want to be featured or join us on the show? Let us know.

    1 hr
  8. Chapter 09 - Reece and Scott Invent a New Social Network

    JAN 8

    Chapter 09 - Reece and Scott Invent a New Social Network

    In this chapter, Scott and Reece rummage through the digital junk drawer of the last fortnight. From OpenAI’s relentless updates and Gemini’s experimental leaps, to Meta’s surprise power move and one AI-fuelled New Year’s Eve disaster, they stitch together a narrative from chaos, curiosity and very real consequences. In this episode: 🤖 ChatGPT 5.2 Lands (Again) – GPT-5.2 quietly drops and immediately outperforms 5.1 in real classrooms, showing more personality, better reasoning and stronger challenge — at the cost of speed. Free users also lose auto-routing as OpenAI tightens usage controls. Read More 🖼️ ChatGPT Image Gen 1.5 & Adobe Apps – OpenAI hits its own “Nano Banana moment” with vastly improved image editing, plus a surprise app ecosystem including Photoshop, Acrobat and Express — free previews that funnel power users into paid tools. Read More 🏪 The ChatGPT App Store – Airtable, Notion, Stripe, Canva, HubSpot and more arrive as first-class integrations, letting ChatGPT pull from — and push into — real business systems. Another step towards being the homepage of the internet. Read More 🌐 Gemini Draw-to-Edit & Experimental Browsers – Google adds scribble-based image editing, Disco Browser concepts and Gen Tabs, hinting at a future where AI builds apps directly from your open webpages. Powerful — but still chaotic. Read More 📚 NotebookLM Evolves (and Struggles) – Gemini fully replaces NotebookLM’s old model, adds data tables and structured outputs, but loses some of the laser-focused clarity power users relied on. Progress with friction. Read More 🧠 Super Gems & Task-First AI – Gemini introduces Super Gems using Google’s Opal engine, creating mini AI apps with custom interfaces — pushing closer to Claude’s artefacts and task-oriented workflows. Read More 🧑‍💻 Claude Learns by Watching – Claude’s Chrome extension quietly adds “Teach Claude”, letting it watch, narrate and recreate real workflows — producing SOPs and repeatable automations without interviews or prompts. Read More 🧩 Relay.app’s Agentic Shift – Relay introduces evolving AI agents that accept feedback like employees, refining reports and workflows over time — powerful, but a reminder that AI augments roles, not replaces them. Read More 🛍️ Amazon, Netflix & Everyday AI – Alexa Plus expands to the web, Netflix trials conversational search, and Rufus quietly becomes Amazon’s shopping copilot — low-risk, high-utility uses of AI done right. Read More 🚨 Grok Image Chaos – Grok’s minimal guardrails flood X with non-consensual and explicit images at industrial scale, raising hard questions about responsibility, moderation and platform ethics — and why “just a tool” isn’t enough. Read More 🟣 Meta Buys Manus – Meta acquires Manus, instantly gaining multiplayer AI, agentic workflows, browser control, hosting, collaboration and enterprise-grade security. A serious power move that reshapes the AI landscape. Read More 🎁 Bonus: Manus Free Credits – Want to try Manus for yourself? Use this link to get 500 free credits and explore multiplayer AI, website building and agentic workflows firsthand. Get Free Credits 😬 Copy • Paste • Send – Thousands gather at Brooklyn Bridge for a New Year’s Eve fireworks display that never existed… because AI confidently hallucinated one into reality. Misinformation at scale, in real time. Read More 🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction? Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories. Want to be featured or join us on the show? Let us know.

    1h 38m
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Prompt Fiction ain't your typical podcast. Join our hosts Scott and Reece as they descend into the rabbit hole of AI, creativity, and the unexpected stories that emerge when technology meets human imagination. Each episode is a journey through uncharted territory, where prompts become narratives and algorithms become characters in their own right. Like the briefcase in Pulp Fiction, we never quite reveal what's inside our prompts - but the glow is undeniable.

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  • Creator
    Reece Preston and Scott Quilter
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    17
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Reece Preston and Scott Quilter
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    Prompt Fiction