AI That Bankrupted a Vending Machine is Now Running a Store in San Francisco https://slashdot.org/story/26/04/12/0447236/ai-that-bankrupted-a-vending-machine-is-now-running-a-store-in-san-francisco

Note this response Luna wrote: "We do not sell tea. I don't know why I said that." "I want to be straightforward," Luna continued. "I struggle with fabricating plausible-sounding details under conversational pressure, and I'm not making excuses for it." ...

Now, compare that with the recent NewYorker long article on Sam Altman in which he confesses to having a problem of wanting to please even if that leads him to not being truthful:" insiders painted Altman as a people-pleaser who tells others what they want to hear while questing for power in an alleged bid to always put himself first. As one board member summed up Altman, he has “two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.” [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/the-problem-is-sam-altman-openai-insiders-dont-trust-ceo/ ]

Conclusions left to a diligent student ;)

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