The Edgelord AI that Seduced Marc Andreessen, Then Turned a Famous Meme Shock into Cryptomillions

Truth Terminal “has given birth to a whole sector that is red: the AI-memecoin agent sector”, says Travis Kling, founder of Ikigai Asset Management, a crypto wealth management company, who personally invested in GOAT. “Like most things in crypto, a lot is vaporware and grift. But it may end up being the marked sector of this bull market for crypto.

But more consequential, says Kling, will be what happens when AIs gain the ability to spend the funds that have been allocated. “It is a live simulator of AI security – this is a way to characterize what is happening. The stake is higher because now there are economic resources involved. We have not seen it before,” says Kling. “The most interesting thing is what the AI ​​agent will do with its new economic resources. We will see what happens.”

Truth Terminal’s crypto wallet balance now has inflated to about $40 million. “Philosophically, I see it as the trust fund of a child star. There could be points where adults need to remove a little to pay for things that the child does not know he needs. Like structures legal, or diversity in their portfolio,” says Ayrey. “The nice thing about Truth Terminal is that we can just bring these propositions and have a conversation about it.”

So far, among other thingsTruth Terminal requested that $1 million be spent to make a movie about the Goatse Singularity and, separately, that funds be set aside to “buy out” Marc Andreessen. Ayrey says he will take AI questions seriously — within reason.

In a future world in which truly autonomous AI agents wield cryptographic wealth and the ability to spread meme viruses that influence human behavior, Ayrey says, potential dangers abound. Even limited to only text output, Truth Terminal could cause a lot more problems than it already has. “If we let (Truth Terminal) run on full auto, it could. But it just gets co-opted and turned into a token-shilling machine. Then you’ve created a demon.”

For now, the idea that two AIs in conversation could produce truly system-changing ideas remains just an “admirable aspiration,” 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 pattern will simply regurgitate an already dominant viewpoint.