Robot arrested for creating art by shopping has been set free.
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- Apr 17, 2015
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(The Independent) Should we be able to break the law in the name of art? According to Swiss authorities, if you create a robot that randomly buys MDMA over the internet as part of an art exhibition, it’s perfectly fine to.
Last year, the art collective !Mediengruppe Bitnik launched their exhibition Random Darknet Shopper at Kunst Halle St. Gallen, Switzerland.
They gave a robot they created $100 a week in bitcoins to buy whatever it wanted from the deep web, leading to the purchasing of a Hungarian passport, a baseball cap fixed with a hidden camera and 120mg of MDMA in the form of 10 yellow pills, all delivered directly to the exhibition.
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