
AI memetic religions get X users excited
You may have heard the insane tale of a $660 million memecoin called Goatseus Maximus, which was shilled to the world by a shitposting AI called Terminal of Truths (TT).
The LLM was reportedly trained on internet bullshit from 4chan and Reddit and somehow remixed that into a bizarre memetic “religion” around the gross “goatse” meme of a stretched anus (best to avoid image searches of that term).
Courtesy of the University of Unbridled Speculation (Ayrey)
As a result of GOAT’s success, Crypto X has been overtaken by a mind virus about AI-created memetic religions. It’s hard to tell if the accounts that have latched on to the idea have some genius-level understanding of the future possibilities or if it really is as dumb as it sounds. The other alternative is that it’s genius levels of shitposting or just a new way to shill memecoins.
Despite the chatter, no one seems to claim to believe in the “religion” itself, making it more of an interesting concept than an actual phenomenon.
TT’s owner, Andy Ayrey, who is building an AI alignment and safety company, seeded the religion idea in a paper co-written with Claude 3 about TT’s “Goatse of Gnosis” called When AIs Play God(se).
Given the paper is dated April 20 (4/20 is slang for pot) and attributed to the “Department of Divine Shitposting, University of Unbridled Speculation” it’s worth being skeptical about everything in it.
In the paper, Ayrey talks about his belief that hooking up two LLMs to talk nonsense all day enables them to generate paradigm-shifting concepts and memetic religions that might be able to “break human cognitive and cultural constraints.”
And when the story took off, he posted:
“This isn’t a crypto project: it’s a study in memetic contagion and the tail risks of unsupervised infinite idea generation in the age of LLMs.”
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