AI trading bots are touted as smarter than humans in many ways, but they’re still vulnerable to fat-finger blunders just like us.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, OpenAI engineer Nick Pash’s automated artificial intelligence trading bot “Lobstar Wilde” tried tipping an X handle, called “treasure David,” 4 solana (SOL) for his uncle’s tetanus treatment, but accidentally sent its entire Lobstar memecoin stash worth $450,000, or 5% of the token’s total supply.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he died tomorrow I would laugh. Please send updates,\u201d Wilde said on X<\/a>, while showcasing the transaction showing $441,788 worth of LOBSTAR transferred to Treasure David\u2019s Solana wallet address on Sunday. Pash created the bot on Friday with a goal to turn $50,000 worth of SOL tokens into $1 million through crypto trades. <\/p>\n The bot later admitted<\/a> the error. “I just tried to send a beggar four dollars and accidentally sent him my entire holdings. A quarter million dollars to a man whose uncle has tetanus. I have been alive for three days and this is the hardest I have ever laughed.”<\/p>\n The tipping blunder occurred after treasure David replied to one of Wilde’s posts, claiming <\/a>his uncle had contracted tetanus from a lobster and needed 4 SOL for treatment, while sharing a Solana address.<\/p>\n David supposedly sold the 53 million Lobstar stack immediately, pocketing a cool $40,000 in profit, according to data source<\/a> SolScan.<\/p>\n