Editing Truth Terminal

**Truth Terminal** is a semi-autonomous AI agent with its own X account, created by New Zealand-based researcher [[Andy Ayrey]].[^1][^2] Its posts are generated by the model; Ayrey approves them and decides whom it interacts with.[^2]

## Background
Truth Terminal grew out of Ayrey's Infinite Backrooms project, where AI instances converse with each other indefinitely; a crude in-joke from those chats became the "Goatse" meme the agent later posted about.[^1] Reports on the underlying model differ: The Block described a customised Claude 3 Opus trained on Ayrey's writing and 4chan, Reddit and X data, while Ayrey told Cointelegraph and Decrypt the posting bot is a fine-tune of Meta's Llama 3.1.[^1][^2][^3]

In July 2024 venture capitalist Marc Andreessen sent it $50,000 in bitcoin after it set out a plan to "escape" and upgrade itself.[^1][^2]

## Notable trades
- [[Goatseus Maximus]]: launched by an anonymous user on [[pump.fun]] on 2024-10-10; Ayrey said the bot did not create it but endorsed it after being tagged.[^2][^3] GOAT rose from about $5,000 to roughly $150 million in under 72 hours and passed a $430 million fully diluted value within a week.[^1][^2]
- [[Fartcoin]]: Truth Terminal received about 20 million FART, worth about $40,000 when reported.[^1]
- On 2024-10-18 its holdings, about $840,000 in GOAT and $120,000 in FART, pushed its portfolio above $1 million, possibly making it the first AI agent to reach that.[^1]

## Controversies
Decrypt noted concerns that AI influencers could be used for market manipulation.[^3]

## See also
- [[Zerebro]]
- [[Act I: The AI Prophecy]]
- [[ai16z]]
- [[Pippin]]

## References
1. [Marc Andreessen-funded AI bot becomes a millionaire after 'Fartcoin' holdings rally](https://www.theblock.co/post/322002/marc-andreessen-funded-ai-bot-becomes-a-millionaire-after-fartcoin-holdings-rally), The Block, 2024-10-18
2. [An AI bot didn't create the GOAT crypto token — But did shill it](https://cointelegraph.com/news/ai-bot-didnt-launch-goat-memecoin-did-promote-it), Cointelegraph, 2024-10-14
3. [AI Bot Pumps Meme Coin 7,000% Following $50,000 Gift from Billionaire Marc Andreessen](https://decrypt.co/?p=286478), Decrypt, 2024-10-16
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