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.