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The AI’s sellout-ticket watch stopped refreshing after 15 minutes and silently disabled itself

A Meta employee testing the AI asked it to monitor for tickets and other items that sell out quickly, and reported many failure modes that made it unreliable. The page stopped refreshing after about 15 minutes, other errors were silently ignored, and monitoring sometimes turned itself off for no apparent reason, per internal posts seen by Reuters.

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How it works

  1. Ask the AI to monitor a page for fast-selling tickets
  2. Page stops refreshing after about 15 minutes
  3. Errors occur without any notice
  4. Monitoring disables itself with no apparent reason
  5. Tester reports the watch unreliable

Why it’s worth knowing

The watch did not just fail - it quietly stopped watching, the one failure a monitoring agent must never have.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on klse.i3investor.com. See the original ↗

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