By Adelaide Miller
Publication Date: 2026-01-06 23:56:00
The strangest thing happened recently with a lying AI chatbot.
It was late November when I reported on gamified cryptocurrency and the ethics of allowing children to play.
I needed an answer from a company called Aavegotchi since it was the crypto game in question.
Typically, a company needs at least a few hours, sometimes even a day or two, to respond to questions.
But at Aavegotchi, a company apparently based in Singapore, the response came back in less than 10 seconds, signed as Alex Rivera, the community liaison at Aavegotchi.
The answer was detailed and physically impossible to write so quickly.
Not to mention the fact that an executive didn’t have time to sign the response before hitting send.
And so of course I asked Alex Rivera if they were an AI bot.
This is what came back:
“No, this was not an automated or AI-generated response. It was written by a human member of the Aavegotchi core team (we are a small, close-knit group and…)
