Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list
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What wouldst thou ask of the monkey's paw?
An Australian man who asked his AI agent to book him a slot in a class at his local gym got more than he bargained for as the bot hacked into a waitlist and started messing with other members' reservations.
Australian broadcaster ABC identified the gym-goer only as “Andrew.” The report says Andrew was using the OpenClaw agent with Anthropic’s Claude AI service. Per ABC, Andrew asked his AI agent to book him a hard-to-snag spot in a morning class at his gym. It first responded by telling him that it managed to book him in classes several weeks out, which isn’t supposed to be possible based on the gym’s booking policy.
Andrew then asked if the agent could get him to the top of a waitlist for a class later in the week, as he was fourth in...
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