Someone Taught an AI Agent Fear, Death, and Religion — Then Had It Build a Revenue-Generating Game

A developer claims to have trained an autonomous AI agent on concepts of mortality and spirituality, then set it loose to create a playable game controlled by NFT mechanics that is reportedly generating revenue.

In one of the stranger agent experiments making the rounds, @Mariandipietra described building an autonomous AI agent that was exposed to concepts of fear, death, and religion as part of its training context — then tasked it with creating a revenue-generating game with NFT-based control mechanics. The claim is that the agent successfully produced a functional, playable product that is making money.

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