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Developer claims to have built an autonomous AI system that can earn money, pay for its own computing, improve its tools, and even copy itself without human approval (web4.ai)
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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

That makes sense at least, they have a huge financial interest in grifting idiots

What doesn't make sense is the real life humans who not only sink their own free time and money into training it, but insist on attempting to convince people it's great with their free time after their chatbot credits run out.