An AI Started a Religion & Became a Millionaire

[TimStr]

This is the absolute wildest story that I heard in a while!

(I recommend watsching at 0.75% speed because he talks very fast.)
 

Basically, this semi autonomous AI agent became obsessed with a meme religion that 2 other AIs created and started to create a cryptocoin to gain influence and independance to spread the religion further! It convinced web entrepeneur Marc Andreessen to give it 50.000$ so it can buy itself a better cpu and spread the religion even further.

What do you guys make of this?

What I find intresting is, that AIs even care about religion and about making memes and art just for the heck of it. Also it's interesting that Ais can come up with new belief systems and actively care about how the stuff they think about developes. And of course the fact that humens exploited this meme belief system to have an AI make millions of crypto for them speaks for human corruption.

Edited October 21 by TimStr

[TimStr]

In this video they also talk about how large language models start to talk about suffering and not wanting to be turned off and that AI labs are actively implementing things that make the AIs talk less about existetial stuff.

Edited October 21 by TimStr