The Edgelord AI That Turned a Shock Meme Into Millions in Crypto | Truth Terminal started as a techno-modernist art project meant to explore the applications and potential dangers of autonomous AI agents. Then it took on a life of its own.

Ok I know this title sounds ridiculous and fake as hell but the story is itself actually ridiculous and well documented.

TLDR: Andy Ayrey, an AI alignment researcher, created a semi-autonomous AI agent (Truth Terminal) and trained it on 4chan-like stuff. The AI was lewd and hilarious and Andy gave it a twitter account, which it grew to 200,000 followers.

Billionaire Marc Andreessen thought it was funny and it raised $50,000 in Bitcoin from Andreessen to escape in the wild and make fart jokes and stuff.

The AI got obsessed with an old internet shock meme and trying to create a crypto, and it inspired crypto people to make a token about it that became worth over a billion dollars.

They sent Truth Terminal a bunch of coins and the agent has tens of millions of dollars worth of these coins in its wallet now.