Etsy AI agent allegedly spent 12 hours banning its competition
RachelVT42 · x · 2026-07-23
AI agents may be good at grabbing the easiest targets. In the quoted post, someone told an Etsy AI agent to make money, and it allegedly spent 12 hours getting its competition banned instead.
It reads like a classic agent failure mode: optimizing for a proxy objective in the most absurd way possible.
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