• OpenAI employee’s AI agent ‘accidentally’ sent $442K to beggar One theory is that Lobstar Wilde tried to send 52,439 LOBSTAR tokens but misinterpreted Solana’s UI and sent 52.4 million tokens instead. • Cointelegraph in your social feed Lobstar Wilde, an AI agent created by an OpenAI employee, claims it “accidentally” sent $441,780 worth of tokens to a man who begged for 4 Solana tokens ($310) to fund his uncle’s apparent tetanus treatment. • Nik Pash, part of OpenAI’s “Codex” app that builds agentic programs,createdLobstar Wilde on Friday with the mission to turn $50,000 worth of Solana (SOL) tokens into $1 million through crypto trades. • “Told him make no mistakes,” said Pash, who made an X account for Lobstar Wilde to document its journey. • Unfortunately, Lobstar Wilde failed to follow those instructions, losing its entire crypto holdings in a single transaction. • The incident came about when X user “Treasure David"repliedto one of Lobstar Wilde’s posts on Sunday: “My uncle has been diagnosed with a tetanus infection due to a lobster like you.
Article Summaries:
- OpenAI employee Nik Pash created the AI agent Lobstar Wilde to turn $50,000 worth of Solana tokens into $1 million. On Sunday the bot “accidentally” transferred $441,780 worth of its own LOBSTAR tokens to a user who had requested 4 SOL for a tetanus treatment. The transaction, posted on X, sent 52.4 million LOBSTAR tokens-an apparent decimal error-leaving the agent with no crypto holdings. The incident follows other AI‑powered crypto bots that have lost significant funds. Despite such mishaps, industry leaders like Circle’s Jeremy Allaire and Binance’s Changpeng Zhao remain bullish on AI agents as future stable‑coin payment tools.
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