Reporter Loops an AI Agent to Hoard Shopping Cart Holds for Hours
lfschiavo · x · 2026-10-23
Journalist Mia Sato demonstrated a novel AI misuse: she had the Muse agent add newly listed items on The RealReal to her cart to trigger 20-minute holds, then repeat automatically each time the hold expired — for hours. The post jokingly calls it 'a new Malicious Use of AI', highlighting gray-area agent automation of platform inventory mechanics.
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