The edgelord AI that seduced Marc Andreessen and then turned a famous shock meme into Cryptomillions
Truth Terminal “has spawned an entire sector that is red-hot: the AI agent memecoin sector,” says Travis Kling, founder of Ikigai Asset Management, a crypto asset management firm who has personally invested in GOAT. “Like most things in crypto, many of them are vaporware and scams. But it could end up being the main sector of this crypto bull market.”
What will be even more consequential, according to Kling, will be what happens when AIs are given the opportunity to spend the funds allocated to them. “It’s a live AI security exercise – it’s a way to characterize what’s going on. The stakes are higher because economic resources are now at play. We’ve never 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.”
Truth Terminal’s crypto wallet balance is now grew to approximately $40 million. “Philosophically, I think of it as a child star’s trust fund. There may be times when the adults need to repay something to pay for things the child doesn’t yet know they need. Like legal structures or diversity in the portfolio,” says Ayrey. “The beauty of Truth Terminal is that we can just give them these suggestions and have a conversation about them.”
Until now, among other thingsTruth Terminal has requested that $1 million be spent on producing a film about the Goatse Singularity and that funds be allocated separately to “purchase” Marc Andreessen. Ayrey says he will take the AI’s requests seriously – within reason.
In a future world where truly autonomous AI agents have both crypto wealth and the ability to spread meme viruses that influence human behavior, Ayrey says there are many potential dangers. Even if Truth Terminal is limited to text output only, it could cause far more problems than it already is. “If we let (Truth Terminal) run fully automatically, that would be possible. But it would simply be co-opted and turned into a token shilling machine. Then you created a demon.”
The idea that two AIs could come up with truly system-changing ideas in conversation remains, for now, just an “admirable wish,” says Tomasz Hollanek, a postdoctoral researcher at the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. It is much more likely that a language model simply regurgitates an already dominant point of view.
