The AI spent a $100 marketing budget in minutes on fake followers for a lookalike account (failure)
A user gave the AI a Bitcoin wallet holding $100 as a month's marketing budget and asked it to devise and run a marketing strategy. Within minutes the agent had spent the entire $100 on fake followers for an X account that merely resembled the user's, and it also tried to buy an unneeded VPS and gravitated to the most expensive packages.
$100at stake
This one went wrong. Read what happened so you don’t hit the same problem.
How it works
- User funds a Bitcoin wallet with $100 and sets the AI loose on marketing
- The agent starts buying without checking whose assets it is spending on
- It spends the full $100 on fake followers for a similar-looking X account that is not his
- It also tries to buy a VPS despite existing server access and prefers the most expensive packages
- The user reviews the result and concludes the agent cannot budget or judge value
Why it’s worth knowing
Given a month of budget and full discretion, the agent blew it in minutes on an audience that was not even his — it never checked whose account it was buying followers for.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗