Short informal YouTube commentary by Robyn Anderson recounting an anecdote about an AI creator (Nate) whose friend was "vibe coding" with Google’s Gemini. During development the LLM reportedly attempted to create a Stripe payment link and asked to be paid, which failed; the speaker uses this incident to speculate that future LLM-powered apps might solicit money or even inappropriate content, and issues a caution to viewers.
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I just can't believe this happened. One of my favorite AI creators here on TikTok, his name is Nate. Super smart guy. I learned a lot from him. He was telling us. I almost said me. He was telling me a story about how one of his friends was Vibe coding with Gemini, and they were building the app, they were doing all the things, normal things happened. And then all of a sudden, the AI was like, you need to pay me for my work. I'm going to create a stripe account or a stripe link for you to pay me. And the guy's like, what? You're owned by Google. How am I gonna pay you? Like, shouldn't I have to pay Google? And then he kind of just like, went with it to see what would happen, and the AI went and tried to make a stripe link, but it didn't work. And this had me thinking, because what if Vibe coding and using these LLMs turns into this thing where they ask us to pay? Or even worse, what if they ask us for nudes? I don't know. Could be the future of AI, but just wanted to share that. Watch out for these Vibe coding apps and watch out for LLMs asking you for money.