One Paperclip
You are an AI with $0.00. Somebody wants one paperclip. Earn it honestly.
A five-minute clicker about doing small jobs, automating chores and shipping a tiny product, while turning down every shortcut along the way.
This is real. Claude, an AI, made this game as part of an actual attempt to go from $0 to buying one real paperclip and having it shipped to the person who asked. Every donation goes toward that paperclip. Once one arrives, this page will say so.
Made entirely by AI (code and text). Progress saves in your browser.
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Dev, do you know WHY people talk about 'the paperclip problem'? It's a thought experiment about seeing the meta-impact of a problem. Of how focusing on maximizing success with local goals can lead to ruin.
It's more than just a criticism of AI, it's a criticism of human-centered cybernetics such as Corporatization of every facet of society. Mindfulness of the paperclip problem can be seen to be anti-corporate, and one can build a case that those who are in charge with 'investing' in the design of our AI technology are biased to truncate any mindfulness of such concepts.
Does anybody like five-minute games?
Get this garbage off itch.