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this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2025
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Since the goal was to make money: I imagine some of the "guardrails" the AI was set up with included emphasizing that it's exist to make money. I wouldn't be shocked if the prompt repeatedly mentioned capitalism.
So you emphasize the AI is a capitalist, then point out the most successful capitalists give away free stuff all the time as marketing. So to meet its primary directive it needs to give away a bunch of free stuff with a snappy slogan.
that was my impression as well, they probably discovered after some back and forth with the robot that its directives included compliance with capitalist market perspective and what not