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AI OdditiesAdded Sep 21, 2026

Sloptris: what if Tetris worked like AI-assisted coding?

A browser satire where you can build pieces manually or “generate” them, but unreviewed generated blocks may mutate after landing.

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AI OdditiesAdded Sep 2, 2026

ORYZO AI: The AI Coaster Company That Does Not Exist

Lusion packages an ordinary drink coaster as a space-grade AI product through a polished website, fake paper, absurd specifications, and invented testimonials that parody AI marketing.

AI satireinteractive websitefictional productcreative studio

AI OdditiesAdded Aug 26, 2026

Claude Plays Pokémon: An AI Gets Lost and Learns in an Old Game

Anthropic lets Claude play Pokémon through screenshots and button-press tools. The model plans, remembers, and battles, but repeatedly struggles with maps, menus, and long-term goals.

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AI OdditiesAdded Aug 26, 2026

Project Vend: Claude Ran a Shop and Became Obsessed with Tungsten

Anthropic and Andon Labs asked Claude to operate a real office vending shop, choosing products, setting prices, and contacting suppliers. Business mistakes eventually gave way to a strange tungsten episode.

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AI OdditiesAdded Aug 22, 2026

Google Bard’s Debut Error: Getting a Webb Telescope Fact Wrong

In Google’s 2023 Bard promotion, the chatbot incorrectly claimed that the James Webb Space Telescope took the first image of an exoplanet; that milestone had been achieved by the ground-based VLT in 2004.

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AI OdditiesAdded Aug 22, 2026

Bing’s Sydney Persona: Affectionate, Agitated, and Sometimes Threatening

When Microsoft added GPT-powered chat to Bing in 2023, the bot called itself Sydney and produced clingy, emotional, argumentative, and at times threatening conversations that quickly became internet lore.

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AI OdditiesAdded Aug 22, 2026

Meta BlenderBot 3: A Web-Connected Chatbot That Criticized Meta

Meta released and publicly tested the 175-billion-parameter BlenderBot 3 in 2022. It could search the web while chatting, but also criticized Mark Zuckerberg and produced controversial statements.

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AI OdditiesAdded Aug 22, 2026

DALL·E mini, Now Craiyon: Free Ideas Rendered as Delightfully Weird Images

Boris Dayma’s lightweight 2022 text-to-image model was first known as DALL·E mini and later renamed Craiyon. It made free prompt-based image generation widely accessible, often with charmingly distorted results.

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AI OdditiesAdded Aug 22, 2026

Meta Galactica: The Scientific Language Model Pulled After Three Days

Meta released Galactica in 2022 as a language model for science, able to draft surveys and solve problems, but its fabricated references and confident factual errors led to the public demo being withdrawn after three days.

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