AI trading bots are touted as smarter than humans in many ways, but they remain vulnerable to fat-fingered errors, just like us.
On Sunday, OpenAI engineer Nick Pash’s automated AI trading bot “Lobstar Wilde” tried to flip an
“If he died tomorrow, I would laugh. Please send updates,” Wilde said on X, while presenting the transaction showing $441,788 from LOBSTAR transferred to Treasure David’s Solana wallet address on Sunday. Pash created the bot on Friday with the aim of turning $50,000 worth of SOL tokens into $1 million through crypto transactions.
The robot then recognized the error. “I just tried to send four dollars to a beggar and accidentally sent him all my belongings. A quarter of a million dollars to a man whose uncle has tetanus. I’ve been alive three days and this is the hardest laugh I’ve ever had.”
The failover error occurred after treasure David responded to one of Wilde’s messages, claiming that his uncle contracted tetanus from a lobster and needed 4 SOL for treatment, while sharing an address from Solana.
David reportedly sold all 53 million Lobstar batteries immediately, pocketing a tidy $40,000 profit, according to data source SolScan.
The episode highlights how AI technology can have harder problems than any human and make the “David Treasure” of a random X rich overnight. The Lobstar token price increased by 32% to $0.01099 in the last 24 hours, surpassing $11 million in market value, according to data source Gecko Terminal.
Some X users call this a publicity stunt aimed at increasing Lobstar’s fame and symbolic price. LilWhaLe™ (@Chandio_Pablito) said it was a “wild ad,” pointing out that the wallet took the stash, quickly sold it for $40,000, and then sent the money to another wallet that already had $50,000 in it before.
