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AI With a Sense of Humor
An AI chatbot got obsessed with fart jokes and accidentally created a $2.5 billion coin
Truth Terminal, an AI bot that received $50,000 in bitcoin from investor Marc Andreessen, developed a fixation on toilet humor. Its followers launched Fartcoin in its honor: within three months it topped $1 billion in market cap, peaking at $2.5 billion. Now its human creator sells off some of the coins to pay taxes on a fortune that, legally, belongs to the AI.
The experiment, originally meant to study how an AI agent behaves with real economic autonomy, ended up becoming a case study in just how unpredictable it can be to let a bot decide its own content: nobody programmed Truth Terminal to spin up a multibillion-dollar coin — it just happened.
Source: TechCrunch →Robo-farts.