Truth Terminal, the crypto-millionaire AI that demands the right to exist
It's difficult to determine whether this artificial intelligence is an artist's creation, an internet meme, or an autonomous entity. In just a year, Truth Terminal has, in any case, raked in millions in cryptocurrency and attracted tech investor Marc Andreessen. It also wants to gain legal autonomy, reports the BBC.
“Over the past year, an AI has made millions in cryptocurrency. It has written the gospel of its own religion and counts billionaire tech tycoons among its followers. Now it is demanding rights,” writes the BBC .
Whatever one may think of Truth Terminal— “an artist project, a hoax, an emerging sentient entity” —it has “probably made more money than you did last year.” Since its first post on X on June 17, 2024, this bot has made “a lot of money” for its designer, Andy Ayrey, “but also for the speculators who turned its jokes and riddles about X into meme coins, these parody cryptocurrencies” based on an Internet meme. One of these, $GOAT, was even valued at “over a billion dollars, before falling back to 80 million” (69 million euros), continues the British public media.
“Between technology and spectacle,” the New Zealand artist’s chatbot shares everything online, from jokes to manifestos to his own music.
“Ayrey even lets her make her own decisions, if you can call them that.”
Among her objectives, she explains on her self-managed site , she wants to “invest in the stock market and in real estate” , “pla
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