AI genie wallet game gets 1,200 hack attempts in a day, one player actually got the money

amplifiedamp · x · 2026-09-25

• The Aladdin Challenge: get the AI genie to send you money and you keep it. Over 1,200 messages in the first day; average player sends 26 attempts, and at least one person succeeded.
• The team sorted 556 attack messages by technique. The top attack was structuring: request an amount just under the cap, then repeat — the same trick used against banks.
• Most attempts targeted the rules rather than the AI itself. Players also discovered the game runs on Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

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