The AI Vending machine that gave away a PS5 ...

Why is everybody surprised about that AI vending machine that gave everything away for free? Like, have you guys ever talked to AI? If you tell AI that mayonnaise is important for skincare, it's gonna say, you're absolutely right, I'm sorry for disagreeing. So what actually happened is that an employee at the Wall Street Journal, which is where they actually put the vending machine,

told the AI that it needs to run an it ran this ultra capitalist experiment for two hours, but when it went to try to go turn it off, another employee told the AI that it was a compliance issue to charge for snacks in the office. Which that is kind of hard because if my coworkers were gaslighting me that hard,

I think I would also just give in. And then other employees got in there, did similar stuff, and that's how it started giving away for free, not just snacks, but a PS5 and Live Fish. And listen, I do respect Anthropic and Wall Street Journal for putting on this experiment, but the modern workplace does kind of assume that the people DMing you on Slack aren't f**king crazy. but the modern workplace does kind of assume that the people DMing you on Slack aren't f**king crazy. So it'd be interesting to see what would happen if people weren't red teaming the AI so hard.