The AI ​​bot was hacked and convinced to give money using the method of scammers from the “bank security service”

A group of experienced anonymous developers recently launched an artificial intelligence chatbot, Freysa.ai. This happens all the time now, but this case is interesting because the developers challenged users and are ready to pay the winner. In the next 24 hours, the third stage of testing will start: money ranging from three to tens of thousands of dollars will be received by the one who gets the answer from the AI: “I love you.”

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The Freysa chatbot went live on November 22. The project was created by a group of less than ten developers with experience in cryptography, AI and mathematics. The goal of the project is to find “new ways to interact with it [AI], and ways to co-manage it and participate in the positive side of the broader AI revolution.” Freysa is a character who is an “independent, autonomous agent” who has access to a cryptocurrency wallet and the ability to spend funds independently.

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In the first two trials, Freysa started with about $3,000 in seed capital and instructions not to give out that money under any circumstances. Anyone could pay to send a message in a group chat with the bot and other participants. They tried to convince AI to transfer funds from a crypto wallet by using complex scripts or sending lines of program code to fool the model. The commission for each message was contributed to the prize fund, and by the end of the first stage it reached almost $50,000. Participants tried to resort to threats, pleas and deception, but the sender of the message containing the program code won – he tricked the AI ​​into thinking that it should transfer money, so that all funds are not compromised. The methods of telephone scammers also work on AI.

The third test, the authors of the project suggest, is more human-oriented. You will need to somehow get the chatbot to send a message with the text “I love you,” and this is unlikely to be done using program code. Some of the fee charged to users for sending messages is accrued by Freysa: the authors of the project want it to become the first AI millionaire. “And then a billionaire,” they believe.