Autopilot Mayhem: The Case of the Overpriced Algorithm

A short story

Photo by Nsey Benajah on Unsplash

It was my senior, Adv. Rajan on the phone, he yelled, “What have you done?”

I had only ordered a piece of onion samosa since I met him last, and Rajan had appreciated my arguments for our previous case.

I was trying to reply, but some onion samosa remained in my mouth, making it difficult to speak.

Quickly gulping the food, I asked him, “I’m sorry, what’s this about?”

“Rohit Sharma v. TechGenius Pvt. Ltd, you have lost our client Rs.10 crores.”

I opened the Bridge app, which was filled with conversations and activities I hadn’t initiated.

Rajan continued to ask me questions, but I was trying to orient myself and figure out what was happening.

I remembered I had turned the autopilot mode on, and the app was making decisions for me.

I have used Bridge since it was called “ChatGPT”, and it replaced all apps on the phone with its plugin release.

It gave me more peace than my yoga classes. Since emails, personal chats, work messages, and online shopping all were merged into a single chat app with Artificial Intelligence. It didn’t bother me if someone got married in my college groups; the heart emoji went out automatically. It tamed chaos, and I loved it.

I was testing their autopilot feature since my junior was bugging me with silly questions. Couldn’t he just bridge it?

As I scrolled through the long list of conversations, I started to get an idea.

Adv. Rajan had messaged me saying, “The IP must belong to TechGenius, do whatever it takes”. Bridge saw this and decided to take ownership.

It negotiated with Rohit, who had built the algorithm, and he had put in a ridiculous amount of Rs. 10 crores. The algorithm was hardly worth Rs. 50 Lakhs.

Later, it messaged the partners of TechGenius to sign the contract. Since it summarised the messages, the amount was left out. And the so-called Geniuses didn’t bother to read the full agreement.

The smart contract immediately got executed on the blockchain in seconds, and everything is perfectly legal.

And the bridge app asked me for its review for handling the job by selecting an emoji. An emoji is not invented yet to communicate what I feel now.

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