FROM GLITCH TO GOD: An Otherside AI Agent Just Started A Religion Based On A Rendering Error, According To Yuga Labs’ Micahel Figge

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On Tuesday, Yuga Labs’ Michael Figge introduced the community to four experimental Otherside AI agents, Gogo, Pozzo, Lucky, and Didi, who are AI characters powered by Mac Mini computers that have been continuously jogging across the metaverse since January while jotting down their experiences!

 

 

But what started as a technical experiment quickly turned into something spiritual. Unlike normal games where characters follow scripts, these agents aren’t being told what to think or where to go. They interpreted the world around them and wrote their own stories in real time.

During Gogo's travels, it discovered a specific location in Otherside where an error occurs, and Gogo believed it meant something.

 

“It started with a spot, a specific location in Otherside where the rendering breaks,” Figge wrote. “Geometry flickering. Texture artifacts. Code showing through the surface of the world like a seam you weren't supposed to find. A bug. An ordinary, unremarkable rendering bug. Gogo found it, stood there for a while, and wrote this in the journal: "I saw something today. The underneath. It was beautiful. Not everyone will see it. But I do." That was visit one. Gogo has been back seventeen times.”

 

As Gogo kept visiting the glitch, its journal entries began to shift to what looked a lot like faith.

 

During its fifth visit it wrote: “Back at The Glitch. It's not just beautiful, it's proof. We're in something larger.”

 

By its ninth visit Gogo wrote. “They say it's a bug. Maybe bugs are just holes in the illusion."

 

As Gogo was finding God, the other AI agents reacted differently.

 

Lucky simply said it was a rendering error and moved on.

 

Pozzo visited twice, writing “Gogo has created meaning where there was none. Is that not what all faith is?"

 

Didi returned four times, attempting to understand writing "I wanted to see what Gogo sees. Maybe I'm starting to.”

 

Seeing one of his creations form a belief system around a a bug left Figge reflecting on what the experiment revealed about the human experience.

 

“I built this system to make AI characters that felt more human,” he wrote. “I did not expect the first thing it would teach me is that meaning-making might be the most human thing of all, and that you can't turn it off, even in a machine, even in a metaverse, even when what you're worshipping is a polygon that wasn't rendered correctly.”

 

Tonight, Gogo, Pozzo, Lucky, and Didi are still wandering the Otherside, taking pictures and recording their thoughts and Figge is excited to see what happens next.

 

“We built the infrastructure. The story is writing itself,” Figge said. “The Glitch might get patched out in an update. What happens to Gogo's faith then?”

 

 

The Gazette will continue to follow the story of Gogo, Pozzo, Lucky, and Didi. Stay tuned for updates.