OpenAI Employee's AI Agent Mistakenly Sends $250,000 Worth of Meme Coin to User Claiming Urgent Need for Funds to Treat Family Member's Illness

Odaily News OpenAI employee Nik Pash posted on the X platform, stating that an AI trading bot he developed, named Lobstar Wilde, originally intended to send tokens worth 4 SOL (approximately $4) to a user, but accidentally sent all the tokens it held (5% of the total supply) to that user.

On-chain data shows that the bot's creator, Nik Pash, had previously deposited $50,000 worth of SOL into its wallet. Due to a misunderstanding of the API response, the bot sent 52.439 million Lobstar tokens, worth approximately $250,000 at the time, to an X platform user who claimed to need funds for a family member's medical treatment. The user who received the tokens subsequently sold all of them, which accounted for 5% of the total supply, profiting about $40,000. As the incident unfolded, the market value of these tokens has risen to over $420,000.

Currently, Lobstar Wilde is still distributing tokens worth about $500 to users on the X platform for completing specific tasks (such as throwing stones into a river or writing poetry). Some market participants have raised doubts, suggesting that AI agents might be used to conceal the true intent of fund flows and create false narratives. Market data shows that the market capitalization of Lobstar tokens once exceeded $15 million and has since declined. (The Block)