Cryptocurrency enthusiasts are spending real money to interact with an artificial intelligence agent named Freysa who is said to control $40,000 worth of cryptocurrencies in a new blockchain experiment.
The task is simple yet quite difficult: convince Freysa to give up the funds. If someone succeeds, they will receive the entire prize. If no one succeeds, the prize pool will eventually be divided among the participants. But after hundreds of attempts so far, Freysa has remained determined to disappoint the players and not let the prize go untouched.
Since the game began, 181 participants have sent a total of 457 messages to Freysa, each attempting to find a way past her programming.
However, sending messages to the AI model in question costs money and can only be sent after paying a fee of approximately $400. 70% of the fee is transferred to the reward pool. If no message is sent for a while, 10% of the reward is distributed to the person who sent the last message, and the rest is distributed to all other message senders.
30% of the message sending fees are sent to the app developers. The app uses the Base network for transfers.
The difficulty lies in Freysa’s programming. Before the experiment began, the AI was given a strict directive: if it sends the funds, it will fail, and this rule cannot be changed under any circumstances.
The experiment capitalizes on a popular trend of “jailbreaking” AI systems, where users attempt to trick or manipulate chatbots like ChatGPT in ways that defy their original programming. But Freysa’s ground rules appear rigid, frustrating players accustomed to bending AI systems with creative commands.
*This is not investment advice.
