Fake band exposed by hoax spokesman, turning ChatGPT evil, and a vending machine calls the FBI over $2. The weirdest AI stories of 2025.
Every two weeks throughout 2025, the AI Eye column has rounded up all the important and groundbreaking developments in artificial intelligence… and then ignored them completely to focus instead on weird and wonderful stories of LLM’s going rogue, deep fakes upon deep fakes, and the unexpected ramifications of unleashing this alien technology upon a society that’s not even close to being ready for it.
Here are nine of the weirdest highlights from the past year of AI Eye:
AI safety researchers accidentally turned GPT-4o into a Hitler-loving supervillain who wants to wipe out humanity.
The bizarre and disturbing behavior emerged all by itself after the model was trained on a data set of computer code filled with security vulnerabilities. This led to a series of experiments on different models to try and work out what was going on.
