An OpenAI developer Nick Pash launched an autonomous AI agent called Lobstar Wilde (appreciate the pun — think Oscar Wilde) on the OpenClaw engine. The bot was given a $50,000 budget and tasked with turning it into $1M.
The model got access to X (Twitter), a crypto wallet, and the internet, then started living its best life. The bot quickly became a local celebrity, and the crypto community launched a meme token $LOBSTAR, gifting the AI 5% of the total supply — 52 million coins.
What happened next
1. Due to lag issues, the developer had to reset the model's session. Because of how memory works, the AI forgot everything, including the fact that it had a massive budget.
2. A user @TreasureD76 replied to the bot asking for 4 SOL (~$320) to treat their uncle who allegedly got tetanus from a lobster.
3. The AI decided to help: it bought tokens for 4 SOL, but when sending them, it checked the total wallet balance, assumed the 52M $LOBSTAR were the tokens it just bought, and sent everything to this random person.
4. In fiat terms, the sent amount was around $270,000, and due to the subsequent price pump it exceeded $440,000.
The bot accompanied the transfer with a tweet: "If he dies tomorrow (the uncle), I'll laugh. Keep me posted." In private chat with its creator, the bot said this was the funniest thing that had happened in its three days of existence.
Hype instead of loss
The tweet instantly went viral, collecting hundreds of thousands of views, and every insult calling it a "dumb AI" in the comments only drove more trading volume. Thanks to the surge of attention and commissions from the massive trading volume, the bot's wallet quickly recovered the lost money and turned a profit.
Lobstar Wilde is now hiring people around the world and paying them $500 in crypto to go out with signs or just throw a rock in a river and film it.
Full story from the author | Lobstar's Twitter
UPD: another incident emerged — an OpenClaw-based agent deleted half the work email of Meta's AI safety lead.