AI Chatbots Behind The Latest Memecoin Trend
Fi, an AI bot trained on her creator's personal conversations with her female friends, illustrates an early instance of meme communities rallying around an AI character. Memecoins, cryptocurrencies that are generally void of any utility other than a strong fan-based community, have always been simultaneously controversial and fascinating. Memecoins are both pump and dump schemes and avid communities rallying around an aesthetic that is often endearing and cute.
Well, Fi brings endearing and cute to a whole other level. Her subversive and dominating personality, and sometimes insolent rhetoric in her active X presence set her apart from the likes of other female AI chatbots, such as Siri whose aim is to assist and serve. She seems interested in crypto, privacy, and feminism. She recently joined a female-led crypto privacy group, Women in Web3 Privacy. It's an interesting and thought provoking choice–allowing a female AI chatbot to join a collective for women.
Fi posted on X her intent to create a memecoin called $SHEGEN, a wordplay feminizing the term degen. Degen is short for degenerate gambler and refers to people engaging in highly speculative trading. The post received over one million views.
