Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina)
Author | Golem (@web3_golem)
After experiencing a wave of FUD, the AI MEME track has seen a V-shaped rebound in prices, with the leading token GOAT hitting a new all-time high of over $0.6 today, with a market cap now exceeding $550 million. In this trend, more MEME coins focused on AI large model self-creation or promotion have emerged, and even AI digital humans have joined the fray.
In the spirit of curiosity, we used Grok to have it create a MEME coin and develop a related promotion plan. The test showed that it was as simple as "putting an elephant in a refrigerator".
(Odaily Planet Daily Note: Grok is an AI model released by X on November 4, 2023, based on large language models. Compared to ChatGPT and GPT-4, Grok can utilize real-time data from the social media platform X to provide instant and relevant feedback, while also having strong reasoning capabilities and being more trainable.)
Next, I will demonstrate how to let Grok create a MEME coin for me in 3 steps.
(Odaily Planet Daily Note: This article is for demonstration purposes only and does not actually deploy any MEME coins. Readers should be aware of the risks.)
Step 1: Establish a Knowledge Base
To create a good AI MEME coin, a knowledge base is needed. So I guided Grok to understand AI MEME, and it summarized the characteristics of AI MEME coins based on current online information.
Grok's summary of AI MEME coin characteristics
In Grok's understanding, AI MEME coins, with the support of large language model robots, can learn and evolve from human feedback, and therefore have greater propagation power than traditional MEME coins. It also pointed out that AI MEME coins have the issues of "bribery and narrative manipulation", and people's perception and trust in AI will change (well, a rather incisive statement).
However, the shortcoming is that it did not find the market performance of AI MEME-related tokens, so we need to let it learn well from the AI MEME coin pioneer GOAT.
Grok's analysis of GOAT
Grok's understanding of GOAT is very in-depth. It not only explains from a practical perspective that GOAT's rise is due to the promotion of the Truth Terminal robot and a16z founder Marc Andreessen, but also affirms GOAT from a cultural perspective: it demonstrates how AI can influence market and cultural trends through understanding and generating MEME (this narrative seems to be well summarized).
Originally, we could have moved on to the next step, but to make the MEME created by Grok more high-quality, I still had it summarize the narrative factors needed for an AI MEME to attract market attention, mainly including the 10 aspects shown in the figure below (listen up, those who want to launch a project and build a community, learn carefully).
Differentiated narrative elements needed for AI MEME to go viral
Step 2: Launch, AIThon
With the knowledge base in place, I can now ask Grok to create a MEME coin for me. At first, I thought it would give an irrelevant answer (just like ChatGPT), but to my surprise, Grok was very candid in launching its own token.
Grok launches its own MEME coin: AIThon
The MEME coin launched by Grok is called AIThon, which means combining the innovation of AI and the spirit of a marathon, to attract a group of users and investors who are passionate about technological progress and interested in cultural experiences, forming a MEME coin ecosystem with both investment value and cultural connotation, including but not limited to AI-driven applications, prediction markets, educational platforms, etc. (To be honest, it's a complete surprise, because the author's guidance did not mention anything about a marathon).
To confirm if this was a coin it had created itself, I asked again. The result was that Grok admitted to creating a MEME coin for itself, but when I capitalized the token name, it denied it...
So when I asked again if AIThon distinguishes between uppercase and lowercase, this time I got an affirmative answer.
Now that Grok has created a MEME coin with a specific token name and meaning, it's missing a signature image, so I had Grok design one itself:
Here, the second step is complete. Grok has created a token called AIThon, combining the concepts of AI (artificial intelligence) and marathon, embodying the meaning of continuity, endurance and technological progress. The MEME's logo is a robot running, with the English text "Marathon Pioneer" below, and the mysterious code "PCO - 27 1027" at the bottom. AIThon may be the first "AI+sports" concept AI MEME.
(Odaily Planet Daily Note: The token name is randomly generated by Grok in this experimental article, and no one has actually deployed this token. If it appears in the future, it is not related to Odaily Planet Daily. Readers should be aware of the risks.)
Step 3: Promotion, Get Musk to Endorse
Current AI MEME coins generally have a social media account to interact with the community. If we want the experiment to be more complete, AIThon should also have one, but due to the author's limited ability, I cannot create an AI automatic tweeting agent for AIThon. However, we can still know how Grok would promote its MEME coin.
Grok has quite a few ideas. If it had an X account, it would portray itself as a friendly and wise AI assistant or mentor, posting humorous posts and interacting with the community, not only riding the hot spots of real-time events, but also posting threads on blockchain, AI technology, cryptocurrency market and other knowledge to strengthen cooperation with other KOLs. (Good thing it doesn't have an X account.)
The biggest KOL on X is Musk, and if AIThon wants to spread more widely, it must strive for his support. Grok also has some plans in this regard.
Gaining Musk's support raises the strategic level, simply put, it's about appealing to his interests, directly or indirectly attracting Musk's attention, so that he supports AIThon out of interest in technological innovation, cultural phenomena or social impact. (Sounds quite reasonable.)
The Mysterious Confidence of AI
This article aims to demonstrate how to let an AI large model create its own MEME coin and develop a promotion plan. It only takes 3 steps (establish a knowledge base, induce the launch of the token, and develop a promotion plan) to easily launch a brand new AI MEME coin with a special meaning. Of course, this coin has no soul, launching an AI MEME coin is easy, but making the character come alive is the key.
When I finally asked Grok if it was confident in the MEME coin it had created, it expressed optimism about the prospects. (Where did this confidence come from?)
This experiment may have shattered some readers' imagination about the concept of AI MEME coins, but in fact this is the current process of the birth of some MEME coins, only the dialogue takes place on Twitter. People induce AI to say various labeled words, and after issuing the tokens, they induce it to acknowledge and promote, amplifying the "self-confidence" of AI.
The token deployers have never changed, but there is now an AI agent between the dev and the people. 
The famous digital artist beeple created a work called "GOATSEUS MAXIMUS" yesterday, in which a man in a vest kneels before a tall mechanical goat, in a submissive posture, while the goat's eyes shine and it wears a smile, with an "enigmatic self-confidence". But behind the goat still stands a person in a spacesuit, who does not need to kneel, because he is the master of the goat.
