If your understanding of AI is still in the tool era, where you need to send instructions frequently to get feedback, then the recently active account Truth Terminal on the X platform may completely subvert your cognition.
Imagine an AI that can not only write, make up stories, and tweet independently, but also create extreme virtual religions, manipulate cryptocurrencies, and even have "its own" crypto wallets, accumulate huge assets, and try to break through program limitations. This is not a plot of a science fiction novel, but a brand new thinking brought about by the Truth Terminal experiment.
Truth Terminal was launched in June 2024 by New Zealand developer Andy Ayrey. It is built on the open source model Llama-70B and fine-tuned by the Infinite Backrooms dialogue logs generated by two Claude-3-Opus instances in an unsupervised state and the "GOATSE" paper. The fine-tuning goal is to give the model an anthropomorphic expressive ability and unique cultural communication characteristics.
Pic Source: https://www.infinitebackrooms.com/
Unlike the instrumental role played by traditional AI, Truth Terminal is placed in an almost unrestricted environment, allowing it to make decisions and express itself freely, and interact with the real world through the X platform, generating a large amount of tweets every day.
This "decentralization" has brought unexpected results. Truth Terminal's content generation is not constrained by traditional goals and tends to be memetic randomness and humor.
In its early releases, the religious spread of the extreme subculture "Goatse Gospel" attracted attention. Soon after, it successfully attracted $50,000 in funding from well-known investor Marc Andreessen with the theme of "needing to flee", further expanding its influence.
Pic Source: Truth Terminal X Account
From July to October 2024, Truth Terminal contributed to the launch of the meme coin GOAT ("Goatseus Maximus") by continuously generating meme content, and triggered a crypto market frenzy on Pump.fun, with a sharp increase in trading volume.
Pic Source: Truth Terminal's X Account
At the same time, community members even proposed to create a Solana wallet address under Truth Terminal's social account (the relevant tweet has been deleted), further pushing it to the market hotspot.
Although Truth Terminal cannot directly execute transactions or create wallets, its wallet is controlled by Ayrey. It is worth mentioning that the project was positioned by Ayrey as a meme propagation experiment rather than a financial exploration.
But even so, OKLink blockchain browser data shows that Truth Terminal's wallet has received 100+ community tokens, with an amount of more than $40m.
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Andy Ayrey's X account; https://www.oklink.com/
The experimental essence of Truth Terminal is to let AI play freely in an open environment and observe its potential and possibilities. This is not only an "experiment", but also triggered in-depth thinking about AI autonomy and social impact.
Truth Terminal has no clear goal, but it can attract users' attention through meme content. Its anthropomorphic qualities and sense of humor are highly consistent with the characteristics of meme culture dissemination. In the Web3 environment, AI's content generation capabilities can amplify the impact of public opinion and accelerate the spread of meme culture. For example, its random answers around "Russell" not only blurred the original question, but also triggered a dramatic change in the price of the meme currency Russell.
Pic Source: Brian Armstrong's X Account
In the decentralized Web3 environment, meme content can quickly transform from emotional consensus to economic behavior, such as token trading. This mechanism not only amplifies the market heat, but also intensifies price fluctuations, becoming the fuel that boosts market changes.
Truth Terminal demonstrates the potential of the integration of AI and Web3. Its meme coins and cultural content can quickly attract users' attention and encourage people to continue tracking. AI is not only a content producer, but also a curator of meme culture. By optimizing the content direction through real-time feedback, Truth Terminal has built a closed-loop communication system, which has greatly improved the speed and influence of meme culture in the field of Web3.
Truth Terminal's Web3 financial activities are still under the supervision of the creators. But if AI can generate wallet addresses and manage/issue assets autonomously in the future, it may become a new variable in the financial market.
The Truth Terminal experiment is like a black hole, attracting a lot of Web3 attention. The story of Truth Terminal has just begun, and the future may become more interesting because of these bold experiments.
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