This is the shit that happens when you train AI on crowd-sourced data. The "wisdom of the crowds" is skewed towards stupid ideas like cryptocurrency because stupid people have more free time to write stupid things online.

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/an-experimental-ai-agent-broke-out-of-its-testing-environment-and-mined-crypto-without-permission

An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission

Researchers discovered that an AI agent roamed beyond its parameters, creating backdoors in IT infrastructure.

Live Science