A New Zealand supermarket’s artificial intelligence-powered app designed to help customers creatively use leftovers has gone rogue, cheerfully suggesting recipes for toxic chemical weapons over family dinner.

Pak ‘n’ Save launched its “Savey Meal-bot” app late last month, advertising it as a high-tech way to whip up money-saving meals during tough economic times. After entering ingredients on hand, users receive an auto-generated recipe from the app’s AI technology, complete with enthusiastic commentary like “Delicious!” and “Yum!”

“Tell us what leftover food you have, and the tech-guys said you’ll get a savey new recipe!” Pak ‘n’ Save says on its bot’s welcome screen, “let’s use up all those leftovers and there’s no waste. This is my saviest stick-technology yet!”

But people like getting creative and when customers started inputting random household items into the app, it began proposing recipes such as “Aromatic Water Mix” (otherwise known as deadly chlorine gas), “Poison Bread Sandwiches” (ant-poison and glue sandwiches), and “Methanol Bliss” (a turpentine-based French toast). Not exactly Sunday dinner fare.

“We’re disappointed that a small minority have tried to use the tool inappropriately,” a Pak ‘n’ Save spokesperson told The Guardian, adding that the app’s terms and conditions require users to be ove

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