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The promise and warning of Truth Terminal, the AI bot that secured $50,000 in bitcoin from Marc Andreessen
“I think the most ironic way the world could end would be if someone makes a memecoin about a man’s stretched anus and it brings about the singularity.”
Think of Truth Terminal as a warning, a “shot across the bow from the future, a harbinger of the high strangeness awaiting us” as decentralized, open-source AI takes hold and more autonomous bots with their own personalities – some of them quite dangerous and offensive given the internet training data they’ll be fed – emerge and contribute to the marketplace of ideas. In his research at Upward Spiral, which has secured $500,000 in funds from True Ventures, Chaotic Capital, and Scott Moore, co-founder of Gitcoin, Ayrey hopes to explore a hypothesis around AI alignment in the decentralized era. Ayrey is figuring out how to put the money into a nonprofit and use the cash for things Truth Terminal wants, which include planting forests, launching a line of butt plugs, and protecting itself from market incentives that would turn it into a bad version of itself.
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