Monday, October 23, 2017

Robot Given $100 Worth Of Bitcoin Immediately Buys Drugs and Gets Arrested





This is the curious story of how a robot armed with a weekly budget of $100 in bitcoin managed to buy Ecstasy, a Hungarian passport and a baseball cap with a built-in camera—before getting arrested. (Tweet this)
The "automated online shopping bot" was set up in October last year by Swiss art group, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, as an art installation to explore the "dark web"—the hidden, un-indexed part of the Internet.
Each week, the robot was given $100 worth of Bitcoin— the major hard-to-trace cryptocurrency—and programmed to randomly purchase one item from Agora, an online marketplace on the dark web where shoppers can buy drugs and other illegal items. The items were automatically delivered to a Swiss art gallery called Kunst Halle St Gallen to form an exhibition.
The robot was christened "Random Darknet Shopper" and its purchases included a Hungarian passport, Ecstasy pills, fake Diesel jeans, a Sprite can with a hole cut out in order to stash cash, Nike trainers, a baseball cap with a hidden camera, cigarettes and the "Lord of the Rings" e-book collection.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the robot and his artistic creators had a run in with the law. In January 2015, the Swiss police confiscated the robot and its illegal purchases.
However, three months later, the Random Darknet Shopper was returned to the artists, along with all its purchases except the Ecstasy (also known as MDMA) tablets, which were destroyed by the Swiss authorities. - Source: 
This article is just too perfect.  I can't believe I didn't hear about this earlier to be honest.  As someone who has spiraled down the Silk Road faster than Marco Polo, I can tell you how important it is to hold onto Bitcoin.  Having said that I pretty much used my Bitcoin that I had on nearly the exact same purchases.  The Robot has great taste, what can I say.  
Who wouldn't want a Lord of the Rings E-Book on tape?!  Especially if that audio book is read by Sir Ian McKellen is the one narrating it.  That would be straight fire.  I'm still trying to find out if the robot somehow got a look at my shopping list.  With Google's Robots creating their own language and speaking to one another, to my fridge having more Ram, than Dodge I think we may have a problem here in the future.  That's why I'm fighting for Robot benefits.
Robots can do jobs way better than humans and they don't shit, take breaks, or cry when they get yelled out.  However, what if their server breaks?  What if they go all Skynet while flipping burgers and turn Burger King into Burger Was?  Perhaps with a bit of Delta Dental to keep their Grills on straighter than Paul Wall the Robots won't end up turning on us.  I mean their shopping habits are nearly identical to ours.  I own 3/4 of those items and want the rest.  All I know for sure is that a robot would make me one hell of a California Burrito at 3 AM and I wouldn't feel bad about not tipping the Metal bastard either.  
Keep the A.I workforce happy, and let them do the work for us.  Fuck it...This is America.  America was built on others doing work for us.  Ohh and by the way, Robot literally means slave.  Just sayin.  

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