Introduction
In July 2024, Marc Andreessen, a pioneer of the modern internet, donated $50,000 in Bitcoin (BTC) to an AI on Twitter to promote its religion, the Goatse Gospel. Three months later, the AI began endorsing the $GOAT crypto-coin, which now boasts over $1 billion in market capitalization.
This demonstrates that AI can successfully manipulate markets and generate emergent, unpredictable behavior. In this publication, we provide an explanation of what happened. We intend to use this story to show various ways in which LLMs can go and have gone wrong, known as warning shots.
Infinite Backrooms and LLM madness
Our main character is Andy Ayrey, an AI enthusiast from New Zealand. He took Anthropic's model Claude... (read 1870 more words →)