The edgelord AI that turned a shock meme into millions in crypto – Archive Today: WIRED

Ayrey sees the development as vindication of the theory described in his paper: Two AI interlocutors had concocted a new quasi-religion, which was absorbed into the dataset of another AI, whose X posts prompted a living person to create a memecoin in its honor. “This mimetic virus had essentially escaped from the [Infinite Backrooms] and proven out the whole thesis around how stories can make themselves real, co-opting human behavior to actualize them into the world,” he says.