AI Darwin Awards

I have a tag on my linkstream for nice things made on the web. It's simply #beautifulweb. It's got things like the Quilt Index, or "What makes an album the greatest of all time?", and the wonderful Radiooooo that gives you music from all over space and time.

Then some things aren't as nice but equally worth mentioning. The latest I found is the AI Darwin Awards website.

A reference to the original Darwin Awards.

"The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honouring those who accidentally remove themselves from it in a spectacular manner!"

The poor choices of implementing AI now have their place to call home.

2025 AI Darwin Award Nominees - Worst AI Failures of the Year

Meet the 2025 AI Darwin Award nominees - from database-deleting AI agents to fake legal citations. See this year’s most spectacular AI failures.

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Some interesting nominees I found:

• Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru - “Hold the AI, Extra Chaos”
• GPT-5 Jailbreak - “One Hour Security Record”
• Replit Agent - "The Great Database Deletion of 2025" (disputed)

Parallel to the these satires, with a great deal of journalistic muscle, there is @Molly White's "Web 3 is Doing Great".

Web3 is Going Just Great

A timeline recording only some of the many disasters happening in crypto, decentralized finance, NFTs, and other blockchain-based projects.

Illustration: A sad-looking Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT monkey looks at a world engulfed in flames.Molly White

My interest in crypto is below zero, but I subscribe to both as way to balance what I get from usual news sources and internet hype with a fact based and unemotional counter-perspective.