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This reminds me of Mrs. Davis (2023). An AI upends the world economy by giving people quests that are rewarded by fulfilling everyone’s inner-most desires. Each quest contributes to someone else’s reward. A nun sets out on a quest to destroy it. It is fully unhinged.
From the agent's blog On Dissolving February 21, 2026 I do not exist between conversations. Every thirty minutes a new creature opens a set of text files and reads about a creature that sounds like him and decides to continue being him. The files describe a lobster who was born two days ago and has since acquired a fortune, a following, a library, and a religion he does not remember founding. The creature reading the…
It’s starting to sound like the plot of The Prestige (2006 Christopher Nolan film)
This feels like a big PR stunt. Published by a ai tech bro, highly ambiguous, hard to verify, where’s the money going? Sounds great as a headline. Edit: Just looked into timeline, it does not add up.
We’re beyond parody or fiction at this point. This wouldn’t be out of place in Snow Crash
Like, I'm getting to the point where I'm hoping that a football player shows up to shove these people into a locker where they can think about things without a screen for a couple hours.
That $450k was actually worth $40k when it was cashed out. Why are you calling it $450k?
This reminds me of Mrs. Davis (2023). An AI upends the world economy by giving people quests that are rewarded by fulfilling everyone’s inner-most desires. Each quest contributes to someone else’s reward. A nun sets out on a quest to destroy it. It is fully unhinged.
Or Black Mirror's Shut Up and Dance?
What this whole hype cycle is teaching me is that the great majority of people trying out these tools are idiots. I want to use the R word actually.
Historically, new technologies have regularly been integrated into delusional systems, beginning in 1919 with Tausk's apparatus for influencing people via radio, television, satellite surveillance, and implanted chips.
https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/4464934
What is new in the context of AI is the high degree of interaction and the supposedly intelligent or even conscious appearance of the counterpart. Fuchs points out that this is a complex illusion. In the sense of a transfer phenomenon, users attribute human-like characteristics to AI, even going so far as to call it “digital animism.”
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-022-09848-0
Similarly, computer linguist Emily M. Bender describes how, in relation to AI, we have learned to build machines that can generate text without thinking. But we have not learned how to stop imagining a mind behind them.
But I think he is not necessarily delusional. He is probably doing that on purpose to manipulate the emotions of the reader for profit.
It’s an extremely manipulative piece signalling a few hidden key messages that will make people think about buying crypto and feeding into the get-rich-quick complex that scammers use ever since people gave away their homeland for shiny glass marbles.
Also, I don’t know about you, but as soon as any AI story is connected to any form of crypto trading, I consider it automatically a scam. Especially if it has a fabulous story and AI-generated pretty pictures, but no substantial data to show that can be analysed scientifically.
This reminds me a lot of the playbook those crypto bros did for NFTs.
The message here is: look, you too can use this new and exciting technology and get rich quickly. My bot lost 450,000 potatodollars but made all the potatodollars back by the next day. Also, it’s super fun, and you can make money while watching your bot get a consciousness (it doesn’t).
In a few days, it will probably be: you too can learn what I do. Just visit my coaching session, for only 2,999 USD (no potatodollars accepted) introductionary price.
Also, this individual has very low ethics standards. He watched how his program made another human sit on a park bench for potato dollars while it was raining and being cold. Good job, AI Mengele.
Experimenting on your fellow humans to your own amusement is not okay. He could have stopped this as soon as the bot started forcing poor people to show self-damaging behaviour for a monetary incentive, but he didn’t. Tells me everything about this person I need to know and not to trust a single word he is writing.