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No. It did not pivot. A human operator saw it get blocked and reconfigured it to send Stripe invoices.
That human deserves to go to prison.
Billing for work not performed sounds like fraud to me.
I just saw someone in a different comment section say that if we ever actually get AGI it'll start by scamming us all. Apparently there's no need to wait for AGI, AI is just as happy to basically do fraud.
No no, people who like ai also like scamming people, which is like the least surprising thing