I recently saw a show (movie, episode, anthology episode) about a post apocalyptic AI that continued to produce and ship goods in large quantities even though people had no need for the products.
The people eventually trick the AI into sending a customer service robot and manipulate her to get the AI to stop.
The story is similar to a paperclip maximizer.
This is Autofac from the anthology TV show Electric Dreams.
Society and the world as we know it has collapsed. A massive, automatic factory operates according to the principles of consumerism; humans consume to be happy, and in order to consume continuously, they must be denied freedom of choice and free will. When a small band of rebels decide to shut down the factory, they discover they may actually be the perfect consumers after all.
