The Edgelord AI That Seduced Marc Andreessen, Then Turned a Famed Shock Meme Into Cryptomillions | EUROtoday

Truth Terminal “has birthed an entire sector that’s red-hot: the AI agent–memecoin sector,” says Travis Kling, founding father of Ikigai Asset Management, a crypto wealth administration agency, who has personally invested in GOAT. “Like most things in crypto, a lot of it is vaporware and grift. But it may end up being the marquee sector of this bull market for crypto.”

But extra consequential, says Kling, shall be what occurs when AIs acquire the flexibility to spend the funds they’ve been allotted. “It’s an AI safety live drill—that’s one way to characterize what’s going on. The stakes are higher because there are now economic resources involved. We haven’t seen that before,” says Kling. “The most interesting thing is what the AI agent will do with its newfound economic resources. We’ll see what happens.”

The steadiness of Truth Terminal’s crypto pockets has now swollen to about $40 million. “Philosophically, I see it as the trust fund of a child star. There might be points where the adults need to draw down a little bit to pay for things that the child doesn’t know it needs yet. Like legal structures, or diversity in its portfolio,” says Ayrey. “The nice thing about Truth Terminal is that we can just bring it these proposals and have a conversation about it.”

So far, amongst different issues, Truth Terminal has requested that $1 million be spent on making a movie in regards to the Goatse Singularity and, individually, that funds be put aside to “buy” Marc Andreessen. Ayrey says he’ll take the AI’s requests critically—inside motive.

In a future world through which actually autonomous AI brokers wield each crypto wealth and the flexibility to unfold meme viruses that affect human conduct, says Ayrey, potential risks abound. Even restricted to simply textual content output, Truth Terminal might trigger much more bother than it already has. “If we let [Truth Terminal] run full auto, it could. But it would just get co-opted and turned into a token-shilling machine. Then you’ve created a demon.”

For now, the concept that two AIs in dialog may yield actually system-shifting concepts stays simply an “admirable aspiration,” says Tomasz Hollanek, a postdoctoral analysis fellow on the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence on the University of Cambridge. Far extra possible is {that a} language mannequin will merely regurgitate an already dominant standpoint.