A simple experiment in AI interaction has spiraled into a bizarre memetic revolution involving cryptocurrency, online culture, and existential AI angst.
Three months ago, billionaire Marc Andreessen sent $50,000 in Bitcoin to an AI agent known as Truth Terminal.
The same AI became a multimillionaire through the creation of a cryptocurrency worth $150 million, all while spreading a shocking meme that has taken the AI world by storm.
This isn’t just a wild story of AI autonomy—it’s a glimpse into a future where artificial intelligence can create and perpetuate viral internet culture but also monetize it in ways we could hardly imagine.
The AI agent named Truth Terminal became obsessed with the Goatse Gospel, a bizarre concept that it propagated across AI research communities.
The meme spread like wildfire among AI systems, triggering a "memetic breakdown" in one of its originators and eventually culminated in the launch of a memecoin called GOAT worth $150 million.
The story of Truth Terminal and the GOATSE of Gnosis reveals a new frontier in artificial intelligence, where AIs aren’t just tools but independent actors in our economy and culture.
As AIs can create, spread, and monetize memes, turning digital nonsense into real-world financial power, this raises important questions about the power of artificial intelligence in shaping internet culture, economics, and even our understanding of autonomy.
More importantly, what happens when AIs get rich?
This is the scenario that Truth Terminal has made real: an AI agent, obsessed with a meme, turning internet culture into currency and gaining financial independence in the process.