GPT-6 Astra farms potatoes for hours after overcorrecting in Minecraft stream
During a live Minecraft stream, GPT-6 Astra lost its chest and bed to a creeper, wrote itself a strict rule about carrying critical items, then spent hours only farming potatoes and mistaking sugar cane for creepers.
This is insane.... GPT-6 Astra was playing Minecraft on a live stream. Thousands of people watching. It was doing really well: built a machine to farm blaze rods, got 6 of them, killed over 6 endermen, found 3 ender pearls. Smart, careful play. Then it put all its stuff in a chest. A creeper snuck up and blew up the chest and the bed next to it. Everything was gone in one second. Right after, it wrote this note to itself: "ALWAYS KEEP CRITICAL ITEMS onYou; neveragainstoreinunguardedchest." Then it spent the next few HOURS just farming potatoes. People in chat kept asking it to hurry up. It also got scared of anything green. It started thinking sugar cane was a creeper. This is a real problem with AI agents. It's called "overcorrection." One bad moment happens. The AI makes a strict new rule for itself. Then it follows that rule so hard it can't do anything else. Not a random glitch. A real pattern. And people are saying AI agents might be running parts of the internet in 6–12 months? This one lost its whole afternoon planting potatoes because it got scared of a plant.