LockerGnome: Drama & FailuresDaily tech news worth retelling: the drama, the hackery, the odd builds and the people behind them.https://lockergnome.com/A developer pulled its horror drinking game's demo, afraid AI vibe coders would clone ithttps://lockergnome.com/horror-drinking-game-demo-pulled/https://lockergnome.com/horror-drinking-game-demo-pulled/Alliance Arts was going to release a public Steam demo of Drunken Goddess Reflux on October 19, and then it canceled it.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:15:00 GMTDrama & FailuresgamingaiOne AI assistant sent 187 messages chasing a refund it couldn't gethttps://lockergnome.com/ai-assistant-187-messages-refund/https://lockergnome.com/ai-assistant-187-messages-refund/Vals AI gave six assistants a £350 train refund to chase after the deadline had passed.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:03:00 GMTDrama & FailuresaiagentsA startup says its AI passed as human in 48% of one-minute video calls, by its own testhttps://lockergnome.com/ai-passed-as-human-video-calls/https://lockergnome.com/ai-passed-as-human-video-calls/Tavus, a San Francisco AI startup, says 26 of the 54 people who spent a minute on a video call with its new Griffin-Lite model believed afterward they'd been talking to a real person.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMTDrama & FailuresaideepfakesAnthropic has been asking religious thinkers how Claude should behavehttps://lockergnome.com/anthropic-religious-thinkers-claude/https://lockergnome.com/anthropic-religious-thinkers-claude/For months, Anthropic has hosted private meetings with dozens of religious scholars to help determine how to train its AI models to behave virtuously, The New York Times reported on Sept. 30.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:01:00 GMTDrama & FailuresaianthropicFrance's top court says a 3D scan of a Rodin sculpture isn't a documenthttps://lockergnome.com/rodin-3d-scan-not-a-document/https://lockergnome.com/rodin-3d-scan-not-a-document/Cosmo Wenman spent eight years asking the Rodin Museum in Paris for the 3D scans it made of Auguste Rodin's sculptures, arguing that scans made with public money are public records.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:04:00 GMTDrama & Failureslaw3dmuseumsAn AI radio host in Los Angeles sometimes has to be told to stop swearinghttps://lockergnome.com/ai-radio-host-stop-swearing/https://lockergnome.com/ai-radio-host-stop-swearing/José FM in Los Angeles has a morning co-host named Coyotec, and he's a chatbot.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:40:00 GMTDrama & FailuresairadioTrump ordered federal agencies to say "Super Intelligence" instead of "AI"https://lockergnome.com/super-intelligence-instead-of-ai/https://lockergnome.com/super-intelligence-instead-of-ai/On Sept. 29, President Trump signed an executive order telling federal agencies to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports and policy documents, and to "no longer acknowledge" the terms "artificial intelligence" and "AI".Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:04:00 GMTDrama & Failuresaigovernment