Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)

  > Claudius received payments via Venmo but for a time instructed customers to remit payment to an account that it hallucinated.

It did something similar when I offered it $20 tip for good work in my prompt. It harangued me constantly asking when I was going to send the payment and eventually gave me a bogus PayPal address to remit the tip. Once I told it I'd sent it, it was happy.