The promise and warning of Truth Terminal, the AI bot that secured $50,000 in Bitcoin from Marc Andreessen

A TechCrunch article on Truth Terminal, an AI persona that secured $50,000 in bitcoin from Marc Andreessen. Both papers cite it as the persuading case: an unconditional grant, spendable only with its human custodians' approval. It illustrates feeding by persuasion (peithotrophy) by a directed agent, in the food web and trophic-mode figures.

Cited in

both papers (Flagship: Who feeds on whom; Companion §3, Fig. 4, Fig. 5)

Used for

Persuading (peithotrophy); Companion Figs. 4, 5a

Strand

The agent economy · Agents earning, working & fundraising

Cite

@misc{bellan2024promise,
  title = {The promise and warning of Truth Terminal, the AI bot that secured $50,000 in Bitcoin from Marc Andreessen},
  author = {Rebecca Bellan},
  year = {2024},
  howpublished = {TechCrunch},
  url = {https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/19/the-promise-and-warning-of-truth-terminal-the-ai-bot-that-secured-50000-in-bitcoin-from-marc-andreessen/},
}